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This Way Up

with Simon Morton

Saturday, Midday - 2pm

QUICK HITS
12:15 Pepper
12:40 Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals
13:15 Urban farming in Detroit
13:25 Virgin vs extra virgin olive oil
13:40 Tonecheck
13:50 World's biggest tidal power turbine

THE SMALL PRINT
First up this week Peter Piper picked a peck of it. We're looking at the world's most popular spice, pepper, with Alison Sandle. You used to be able to pay the rent with it!

Then at about 12:30pm I'm speaking to Ray Moynihan. He's just written 'Sex, Lies and Pharmaceuticals: how drug companies are bankrolling the next big condition for women'. It's been called Female Sexual Dysfunction and Ray reckons it's the clearest example yet of the corporate-sponsored creation of sickness.

After the news at about 1:10pm we're off to Detroit in the US. The city was once the proud capital of the auto industry there but sadly these days parts of it resemble a post-industrial wasteland. The good news is that Detroit's now home to a vibrant urban farming movement that aims to transform the place into the world's first truly self-sufficient city.

At 1:25pm more food facts and culinary conundrums and this week what's the real difference between virgin and extra virgin olive oil? Well studies in the US and Australia show a lot of what's being sold as extra virgin oil doesn't make the grade. So how do we know that the stuff we're buying in the shops here is the real McCoy?

Then at 1:40pm if you've ever sent or received a rude-sounding email then Tonecheck could be for you. It's like a spellchecker for emotive words and phrases in an email!

And before we go, the world's largest tidal turbine for generating electricity has just been lowered into the sea off Scotland. It'll generate enough power for 1,000 homes - we're speaking to the man from Atlantis (Resources that is!).

WE'RE PLAYING THESE TRACKS TOO....
Track: Son of A Gun
Artist: the Vaselines
Album: Enter the Vaselines
Label: Sub Pop
Catalog#: SPCD810
Broadcast at: 13:10

Track: Help I'm Alive
Artist: Metric
Album: Fantasies
Label: Metric Music International (self release)
Broadcast at: 13:50

AND OUR THEME IS:

Track: The Green Termite
Artist: Jefferson Belt
http://www.myspace.com/jeffersonbelt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
Catalogue #: RTM 200

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