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Stuff We Like welcomes you to 2014, where we discuss the virtues of The British Library, Horrible Histories, the historical Temple Bar in London, and we interview the customers and staff of the newly opened Corner Coffee House in Dagenham.

In this episode we talk about Mozart and the film Amadeus, the glorious Somerset House in London, and chat with Tom Ronan about the magical island of Bali in Indonesia.

In this episode we introduce the Corner Coffee House, we take a virtual coastal journey in Dorset, and learn about microphones and forthcoming book releases.

In this episode we look at all things coffee: a new coffee venture starting soon, a coffee shop on Brick Lane and an inexpensive gadget which could see you creating great espresso. We also pay tribute to the Fender Stratocaster, and ask, what retro technology would you like to see return in the 21st Century?

In this episode we review the Monmouth Coffee shops, pay tribute to Peter Ackroyd's comprehensive London: The Biography, and interview Steve Payne of SciFi Funk about his five favourite films.

From now on, we mash up all our categories and take a fresh, unscripted approach to the podcast. In this episode David Simmons talks about Scrivener software, the Ottolenghi cookbook Jerusalem and the Lamb Shawarma recipe, and we take a trip around the world with irrepressible and congenial Aussie, Greg Webb.

We ask: what DVD Boxed sets do you take on holiday? We pay tribute to the late great film visual effects legend Ray Harryhausen, and have a discussion with promising new London-based playwright Dominic Hedges. Presented by David Simmons.

We look at the joys of Florence and some of the surrounding villages in the Tuscan hillside, the lovely towns on the Suffolk coast, and Hannah Walker of FaithAction takes us through her early life growing up in Kathmandu and Nepal.

David Simmons takes us through the joys of the internet from Barclay Square to the modern day. We look at Paper Tabs, Parallels for Mac OS, and interview Dr. Andrew Tizzard from Middlesex University, about flat screen technology, and the use of technology in ground-breaking medical research in the NHS.