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Radio 4,25 Mar 2015,41 mins

Freelance Couriers, Intrusive Footpaths, Care Workers

You and Yours

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Madonna famously went to a public inquiry to stop people roaming over her country estate of 142 hectares. But it is not just the rich and famous who are bothered by Rights of Way - we talk to the woman who came home to find picnickers in her back garden. She's now campaigning to get the law changed. The popularity of online shopping means delivery drivers are being asked to work six days a week and now on bank holidays as well, to earn forty pence a parcel. Is there really any such thing as free or cheap delivery? We speak to the care worker caught between disappointed families and the impossible timetables imposed by her employer. PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON PRODUCER: OLIVE CLANCY.

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