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Randy hates being right all the time with a prophecy come true about a local restaurant. Sherri pontificates about food trucks and emotional support animals. Dennis envisions a world of hating kids in a dungeons and dragons hellscape. Softshell crab preparation leaves everyone speechless. Plus, who doesn't like money laundering and sex?

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Join Vicki and James as they give their review of the play -The Humans- at the Hampstead theatre.

Did they find that the play understood the human condition or did the play lack in humanity?  Download the podcast to find out!

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Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about how to be successful in the first year at university.

Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about the importance of reading and note taking for first year university students.

Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about the first year experience in universities and why attendance is crucial to academic success.

Tara Brabazon talks with Linda Hampstead to address the key challenges that confront students when they arrive on a university campus.

Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about the transition from school to university, work to university and family commitments to study.  What are the challenges and opportunities when moving to higher education.

Alex and Rob cast an irreverent eye over local news from their respective home towns.

Listeners can submit stories from their local area to:lapodcast.net@gmail.com 

Stories this week include:

• Charity runners awarded with tetanus jab after completing race across Hampstead Heath. 
• Local council refuses to act after expanding 'Act of God' definitions to include refuge collection. 
• Dirty judge flushed out after investigation into bribery at the 'Cleanliest Toilet of the Year' awards. 
• Second victim fingers fox in connection to area muggings. 

Also revealed: Rob shows compassion...

Bob chats with the lovely Buzby about the Kew Green OB a fortnight ago. (Whatever happened to Buzby?) and announces the Thameside Radio Pen friends / lonely hearts club. Mazzy gets box number 1. Later we hear Bob’s “Desert Island Discs” where Alex interviews him and we discover a bit more about his holidays and that  beloved Triumph Spitfire. We also learn what started Bob (and his older brother) on being radio pirates. He talks about Thameside Radio’s  early days when the station transmitted from Hampstead Heath for an hour each Sunday.  

Dave’s DIY spot tells us how to make a nuclear fall out shelter out of sticky tape, vacuum cleaner tubing, and old cornflake boxes. (Protect and Survive anyone?)  

The music is so perfectly early 80s. Motels, Silicon Teens, Gary Numan, Siouxie and the Banshees, Stiff Little Fingers, The Police (as well as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and The Who)

Listeners mentioned include: Graham Copeland of Cobham. Gary Williams. Mick Taylor. Alan Jameson. Basil of Harpenden. Jilly Newman. Mike Skinner. 

Thanks to Basil (see comments) for additional information about this broadcast - he reports that "We got perfect reception in Harpenden, 25 miles (40Km) north west of London!"