Award winning Nicola joins us for a chat and tells us about her leap from the sanitised corporate world to her dystopian vision of technology and society so convincingly portrayed in her published works.

National stereotypes are useful. The Brits make the best police and the Italians the best lovers. The Danes are lazy snd the French make the best chefs. The Swiss are the go-to organisers and the Germans the wurst lovers. Can it be that simple? We investigate.

Forget polite discourse. This is the world of animal spirits and short distance signals and messaging. It’s primitive, instinctual and sometimes culturally specific. Posture, body language, hands and fingers are all potent weapons in your communications arsenal. Getting attention in restaurants. Being sexy without saying a word and much more. It’s all there. WARNING Contains vulgar signs and gestures.

Why do we bother to make sacrifices and what do we expect in return. Upsetting the gods and why a superior being is vital; even the Queen. Laying down your life for another and being martyred for your beliefs. Balloon debates and lost-at-sea cannibalism. It’s a heady mix which will leave you facing an existential crisis.

Stand back from your life for a moment to think about who is calling the shots. Can you change the plot and get a new scriptwriter. Do you have agency or does your fate decide. Reworking real life situations that went wrong by doing a movie style “Take 2”.

Barry is a fascinating combination of inspired design and millimetre precision who makes life enhancing furniture around his clients. Are you more traditional oak or hipster cherry? His attention to detail terrifies his tailor when Barry the maker, becomes Barry the client from hell with a weird taste in linings. Be inspired.

After more than 50 episodes we are in step like accomplished tango partners. Our new theme music, courtesy of Isaac Dyer, beautifully captures the new vibe and feel of our collaboration with sudden moves and changes of direction, all performed with perfect timing.

The place of jewellery in adorning the face and body. How to get more bang for your buck. Jamming combinations of rings on your fingers. Pearls and brooches dissected. Jewellery safety tips. Evolution in a blind alley for stunted watch makers. Daniel misunderstands gravitation and puts on weight to make his heavenly body more attractive and upsets some old ladies with a Faustian “look sexy again”pact.

Daniel loses his rag over IKEA’s crass position on GB News. Then slams them for the unforgivable sin of cutting a vertical before considering the wisdom of cooling off before reacting. Does the unconscious keep working on our problems overnight. Corporate and national disasters when there was no adult in the room.

Oh to go back to the smooth ride of the 1950s. You're in for a bumpy ride as we explore how the engineering angels of the perfect ride do battle with the jackhammer devils of the speed bump invented by a Nobel prize winner. Ha!