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Radio 4,11 May 2018,45 mins

Fortnite scams, Panini stickers, Hot chilli sauce

You and Yours

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Today MPs debate whether parking at hospitals should be free for patients and their families. We speak to Conservative MP for Harlow, Robert Halfon, who's raising the issue in Parliament. Fortnite is a hugely popular video game just now and Youtubers are claiming that if you follow their instructions you can get free "V-bucks" on the game - that's the currency it uses. But actually, they are not free, and children are unwittingly putting huge charges on to their parents' credit cards. The World Cup is on the horizon and football fans all over the world will be swapping stickers in an attempt to complete their official Panini World Cup sticker album. A maths professor from Cardiff has calculated that filling this year's World Cup sticker book will cost collectors £773. That's twice the cost of the last one in 2014. We speak to Alex Pratchett from Oxford, who has simply drawn the players to save money. Sales of chilli sauce have really taken off over the past few years, with 171 new products introduced which are classed as "adventurous". Tabasco was the sauce that started it all and this year it marks its 150th birthday. We speak to the Chief Executive of the family business about the UK's growing taste for all things hot. Radio 4 listeners have discovered that their Hey Google voice activated device won't play Radio 4 when they ask it to. But it will play all the other stations. We ask the BBC's Head of Voice why. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Lydia Thomas.

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