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Catriona Olding

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Why gingers have more fun (genetically at least)

Why gingers have more fun (genetically at least)

Contrary to what we redheads have been led to believe, we are not disappearing. Our numbers have increased in the past 10,000 years, according to a...

22.04.2026 10

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Catriona Olding

Why gingers have more fun (genetically at least)

Why gingers have more fun (genetically at least)

Contrary to what we redheads have been led to believe, we are not disappearing. Our numbers have increased in the past 10,000 years, according to a...

21.04.2026 10

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Catriona Olding

Still life / The joy of meeting ‘randomers’

Catriona Olding has narrated this article for you to listen to. Life was complicated when I fled to Provence in November 2014 with no job and very...

08.04.2026 10

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Still life / The joy of meeting ‘randomers’

Catriona Olding has narrated this article for you to listen to. Life was complicated when I fled to Provence in November 2014 with no job and very...

08.04.2026 8

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Few illnesses are as terrifying as meningitis

Bacterial meningitis has left two young people dead and another fifteen seriously ill following an outbreak linked to a night club in Canterbury....

17.03.2026 10

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How can one third of people end up dying in pain?

Recent research funded by the charity Marie Curie has discovered that each year in England around 170,000 people are suffering unnecessarily and dying...

17.02.2026 10

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Jobs for the kids / Work experience was the making of me

It was reported in The Times last week that Hampshire County Council have threatened chef Greg Olerjarka with prosecution if he continues to allow...

16.02.2026 100

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Work experience was the making of me

It was reported in The Times last week that Hampshire County Council have threatened chef Greg Olerjarka with prosecution if he continues to allow...

16.02.2026 80

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Make mine a Moka pot

13.02.2026 100

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The hellish side of Bumble

12.02.2026 8

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Make mine a Moka pot

08.01.2026 40

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Still life / The day Tilda Swinton came to stay

17.11.2025 10

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Still life / The day Tilda Swinton came to stay

17.11.2025 9

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Still life / The day Tilda Swinton came to stay

13.11.2025 10

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Still life / LSD was a fuss about nothing

30.10.2025 20

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What’s wrong with ‘over-testing’ for prostate cancer?

09.10.2025 10

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Still life / I took on a hornet – and won

01.10.2025 10

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Still life / I took on a hornet – and won

01.10.2025 10

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Still life / How not to behave at a London gentleman’s club

04.08.2025 10

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Still life / How not to behave at a London gentleman’s club

04.08.2025 10

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Still life / How not to behave at a London gentleman’s club

31.07.2025 10

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Still life / I’ve rekindled my love affair with England

22.07.2025 20

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Still life / I’ve rekindled my love affair with England

22.07.2025 10

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Still life / My first ever blind date

25.06.2025 10

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Still life / My first ever blind date

25.06.2025 10

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Still life / My first ever blind date

19.06.2025 20

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Still life / Two years without Jeremy Clarke

27.05.2025 20

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Still life / Two years without Jeremy Clarke

27.05.2025 20

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Still life / Two years without Jeremy Clarke

27.05.2025 10

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Is chemically castrating sex offenders really a good idea?

23.05.2025 10

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Still life / Two years without Jeremy Clarke

22.05.2025 10

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Still life / My high-speed bus chase

07.05.2025 10

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Still life / My high-speed bus chase

07.05.2025 10

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Catriona Olding