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  • 570 - Burns Night Expert talks all things Robert Burns and Whisky
    Jan 23 2026

    Rory McGowan sits down with Burns Night and Whisky extraordinaire Matthew Cordiner from Aberfedly to talk about new research around Burns Night, and how many people across the UK are actually interested in celebrating it outside of Scotland.


    They talk about Robert Burns' poems, how to begin with a Burns Night celebration and what it's like being in the whisky business for over 18 years and working during a time with a heightened demand for Scotch Whisky.

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    20 min
  • 569 - Royal College of Radiologists Member on Increasing Insomnia Diagnosis
    Jan 22 2026

    Rory McGowan sits down with Dr Bruna Sanader Vukadinovic, a Specialist Associate Member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and specialist at Private Psychiatry. They talk about an increase in insomnia diagnoses across the world, how sleeping issues could be down to a wide array of different conditions and how they can be treated.

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    10 min
  • 568 - WordPress Director on the Future of Websites
    Jan 19 2026

    Rory McGowan has a brief conversation with Mary Hubbard, the Executive Director at WordPress, about the 35th anniversary of the first website, and the future of websites on the internet.

    Together they talk about their importance in the face of growing large language models, why people still trust websites, and the origins of the first website, which came to be all the way back in 1990.

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    6 min
  • 567 - AI Specialist on how AI could be the secret to a 4 day work week
    Jan 16 2026

    Daniel Clewlow sits down with Chief Revenue Officer at Bell Integration, Mark Nicholas, regarding a survey of business leaders conducted by the company, revealing that many business leaders believe that AI is the key towards a 4-day working week.

    According to Bell's new data, two-thirds of UK business leaders say AI already makes a 4-day working week possible, and Dan and Mark sit down to discuss the benefits of this for both working people and the businesses themselves.

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    10 min
  • 566 - Health and Wellness Coach: How addicted is the UK to Ultra-Processed Foods?
    Jan 16 2026

    Daniel Clewlow sits down with Sarah Stannard, a Health and Wellness Coach, to discuss new data diagnosing Britain's most common eating habits, specifically our relationship to unhealthy and ultra-processed foods (UPFs).

    72% of us now eat UPFs like chocolate, ice cream, instant soups and many others on a weekly basis, with 11% saying they eat them daily. The two of them discuss the impact of this, and how Britain can keep itself healthy in the face of an overreliance on these kinds of foods.

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    17 min
  • 565 - Sleep Psychologist gives her best sleeping tips for 2026
    Jan 13 2026

    Rory McGowan sits down with Dr Ritz Birah, a consultant counselling psychologist, about new data diagnoising the UK's sleep situation. How many of us have it as our number 1 new years resolution, how many struggle to form good sleeping habits and what are the biggest obstacles to good sleep? Dr Ritz tells all.

    The two then talk about tips to help get to sleep, and how sleep can be powered by good bedding and small, healthy habits.

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    14 min
  • 564 - Yamaha Audio Expert on iTunes 25th anniversary
    Jan 9 2026

    Rory McGowan sits down with Stephen Dean from Yamaha to talk about the iTunes 25th anniverary (9th January 2026). iTunes was one of the pioneering apps that eventually gave way to the rise of streaming and the modern landscape of music distribution that we know today.

    Stephen and Rory discuss how this has changed music for both listeners and artists, the history of iTunes and the evolution of the music industry over across the last 25 years.

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    22 min
  • 563 - GoldCore CEO on giving gold for Christmas this year
    Dec 4 2025

    Rory McGowan sits down with David Russell, the CEO of Goldcore, to talk about new research that's come out of the industry suggesting that gold might be more popular than cash for Christmas, alongside other painful truths regarding the cost of living and how the vast majority of people believe that christmas is only ever getting more expensive.

    The research delves into why people think that their cash is losing value and what people can do to get around this issue.

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    20 min