Not Funny, Not Clever
It seemed like a fairly uncontroversial piece. Anna Bullus is 27 and has her own product design company. Her main invention is a bin for disposing of chewing gum which can then be recycled and turned into...more plastic bins for collecting chewing gum. Genius!
Now her bins are being trialled by Herefordshire County Council.
To be brutally honest, this is the kind of story which might slip off the You and Yours running order outside of August. But in the height of the summer an eloquent young entrepreneur with an interesting invention which appears to solve one of the more unpleasant side effects of consumption, is very welcome indeed.
So last Wednesday on came Ms Bullus for her five minutes of fame (4 minutes 13 seconds actually)
Have a listen and see if you can guess what caused a minor flurry of complaints in the programme inbox.
I'll reveal the offending section later this week.
Andrew Smith is the Editor of You and Yours, In Touch, Fact the Facts and The Media Show on BBC Radio 4.
Comment number 1.
At 19:22 24th Aug 2010, BluesBerry wrote:How about recylced chewing come in baby toys?
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At 12:41 6th Sep 2010, cgarmchairpundit wrote:For God's sake will the BBC try to stamp out the ghastly 'Haitch', I've just heard a presenter on you & yours talk about 'Haitch Emm Vee'(HMV).
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