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Audio from Saturday 13 February 2010

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12:15 Future books: Clare Alexander's a literary agent and was editor-in-chief at the publisher Macmillan. We're talking about the future of book publishing and the industry's hopes of dodging the difficulties faced by the music industry in the digital age. (15′44″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
12:30 Home-kill meat: Most of the meat we buy in the supermarket is neatly wrapped and sanitised, not a speck of blood in sight. Bruce Harkness has been home-killing and butchering sheep for years. (18′43″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
12:50 Beijing bicycles: China's turning back to the bicycle. It's trying to avoid the traffic and pollution problems caused by the one million new cars hitting the roads there every month. Jonathan Watts reports. (11′19″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
13:15 Coin toss: There's more evidence that calling head or tails is not as fair as we might think. Matthew Clark's been studying how humans can influence the outcome through skill and training. (8′29″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
13:25 Mumbai tiffin-wallahs: Every day some 170,000 lunches are collected from homes in Mumbai, delivered to workplaces then everything gets taken back home. Meena Kadri's been looking at this daily miracle. (14′29″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed
13:40 Bedroom industry: Dvice's Wendy Lee examines how technology's changing what toys and devices people are playing with in the bedroom. (17′36″); Download: Ogg Vorbis MP3 | Embed

QUICK HITS

12:15 Who will control books?
12:30 Home kill
12:50 Bicycle business in China
13:15 More coin tossing
13:20 Tiffin-wallah's of Mumbai
13:40 Sex toys

THE SMALL PRINT
First up we're speaking to a literary agent and ex editor-in-chief at publisher Macmillan about the future of book publishing. The book industry's desperately hoping it won't follow the same path as the music business.

At around 12:30pm these days the meat we buy has been transformed into edible units, sanitised and commoditised - there's little chance you'll even see blood. Well today we're off to find some homekill meat...no styrofoam trays or cling film in sight!

At 12:50pm China's demand for new cars is creating all sorts of problems with congestion and pollution. With more than a million new cars hitting the road each month the government is looking to pedal power as a solution. Plus a possible ban on eating cats and dogs.

After the news at 1pm we're tossing coins and there's more evidence that calling head or tails is not as fair as we might think. Human's really can influence the outcome and you can train yourself to throw heads or tails.

At 1:20pm we enter the world of the tiffin-wallah in Mumbai, India. Every day some 170,000 lunches are collected from homes in the city, delivered to workers and then the dirty dishes get returned home again. It's a massive logistical operation, and with less than 1 in 8 million lunches going astray no wonder the system's being studied by management consultancies and internationally rated for its precision.

Then before we go at around 1:40pm we speak to a woman who's been selling sex toys for more than a decade. So how has technology changed what some people play with in the bedroom?

WE'RE PLAYING THESE TRACKS....

Track: By And By
Artist: Lay Low
Album: Farewell Good Night's Sleep (released March 9, 2010)
Label: Nettwerk
Broadcast at: 12:25
http://myspace.com/baralovisa

Track: Monkey Man
Artist: Toots and the Maytals (Amy Winehouse cover)
Album: Island Life: 50 Years of Island Records
Label: Universal/Island
Catalogue #: 5318819
Broadcast at: 13:10

Track: VCR (Matthew Dear remix)
Artist: The XX
Album: XX
Label: YOUNG TURKS
Catalogue #: 031
Broadcast at: 13:40

And in case you're wondering our theme is:

Track: The Green Termite
Artist: Jefferson Belt
Album: Table Manners
Label: Round Trip Mars
Catalogue #: RTM 2009
Broadcast at: 12:10, 12:59, 13:10 and 13:59