Sans Nick – On this week’s show Fevzi is Nickless, and so takes the opportunity to ponder the moral framework of a range of issues including abortion, cloning, stem cell research, genetic screening and elective mastectomy. If you’d like to share your view simply email tro@gadgetdetective.com
In this week’s show with Fevzi and Nick, being gay in Hollywood : not as hard as not being gay in Hollywood ? Then, Prince Charles and the State Opening of Parliament, life for the over-50s, fun with glass and the dramatic escape in Cleveland Ohio. Plus, living on [...]
In this week’s show with Fevzi and Nick, can you remember the best or worst of anything that has happened to you? Should high-profile defendants be named before they get to court? And are there degrees of rape? Then, the new world of e-books and how traditional books are still surviving; how atoms have starred [...]
In this week’s show: we begin with Siamese Twins and what happens when companies send bills to dead people. Then, the rights of the Boston bomber, how to make Twitter work, and we ask what’s happened to satire on TV. Plus, why The Hobbit is an awful film, Margaret Thatcher’s funeral costs, the merits or [...]
In this week’s show with Fevzi and Nick, why are mobile/cell phones cheaper than beer, old technology we still love, and secret messages in records. Plus, is Paul McCartney really dead and other conspiracy theories (and the oral histories behind them). We offer our sympathies to Boston, we muse on ricin, and question the quality [...]
In this week’s show, what makes a Haiku, did Superman cancel his US citizenship, and how algorithms for audio processing works (Hint: We didn’t know any of these things). Then, our reaction to arms escalations in North Korea and our reaction to cool news animations in South Korea . Plus: naked news, memory techniques, why [...]
In this week’s show… Cyprus goes bust – how Russian gangsters are paying the price, products which change their names, are Reese’s pieces related to rhesus monkeys, plus animal noises. Then, online dating for people with STIs, gay marriage and the DOMA bill, and how mothers are asked an incredible 300 questions per day. Also [...]
In this week’s show, literature with James Herbert, Terry Pratchett and Barbara Cartland, how to die, and out-of-body experiences. Then, scientific experiments with rats, a rat at the Fukushima power station, and Robert Mugabe (another rat?). Plus freedom of speech, robot bedtime stories, Obama goes to Israel and Arizona debates transgender toilet use. It’s one [...]
This week’s show is a real pope-pourri! We cover the Vatican , how churches work, Brit politicians David Lammy, Eric Joyce and Lord Ahmed, and lies damned lies and statistics. Then, the Bulgarian double lottery winner, the difference between gaffers and gaffes, how to shoot a blunderbuss (very carefully) and the rights and wrongs of [...]
In this week’s show… what is the information superhighway anyway, driverless cars, haptic feedback (oooh!) and theories of the universe. Then, how to build a moonbase, patent trolls and weird medical diseases, plus… has Nick kidnapped his own parents? Plus, we examine the passing of Hugo Chavez and his role on the world stage, and [...]