Himalayan Holiday
Incredible as it may seem there are still some areas of the world where native people have still not yet met Westerners. High up in the Himalayas in a mountainous region on the border with Tibet a group of five tiny
Kumaounian  village families have started their own sustainable tourism venture. As scraping a living from primitive agriculture becomes more and more difficult for them it will enable them to continue to live on their own land.  Without sustainable tourism their lifestyles would disappear.

Recently a group of four Cambridge tourists became the first to sample a week long holiday there. Boni Sones has this special report.

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Monstrous Regiment
The 1997 election was extraordinary in many ways but not least because of
the numbers of women in Parliament doubled from 60 to 120. Never before had
the House encountered anything like it. And nor, it seems, had most of the
women who joined it.

Boni Sones and Deborah Mcgurran produced this BBC Radio 4 documentary to tell their story. It is presented by Jackie Ashley.

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ECS CamCasting

Get Well UK
Paul Goggins MP, the Minister of State for Northern Ireland, has been at the forefront of pioneering complementary medicine on the NHS. In his previous role as Health Minister for Northern Ireland, he announced a new £200,000 fund to pilot the integration of complementary medicine into the NHS. He said that these therapies should be made available to all people, not just people who can afford to pay privately. The pilot project is being operated by Get Well UK and will aim to treat 700 patients initially. Boni Sones, went to Ulster to speak to four patients and their health practitioners to find out how the Get Well UK programme was improving their health.

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Cambridge University
“Neuroscience and Society”
Horizon Conference - October 2006.
Over many years Cambridge University has played a leading role in developing across academic disciplines new approaches to the treatment of disease through the research it has conducted in the field of neuroscience. This multi-disciplinarian approach has won it international accolades. More recently neuroscience has become an integral part of the new scientific disciplines such as psychology and psychiatry and now it has just been announced the University is to set up a chair in neuroeconomics. To celebrate and disseminate more information about how neuroscience is now cutting across many more areas of academic study and the contribution it is making to the well being of the nation Cambridge held a one-day Horizon conference on “Neuroscience and Society”. Boni Sones talked to some of the distinguished scientists who spoke at the conference.

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The work of the Science Council
Every day we read about how science is governing our lives. There are headlines about global warming and the future of the planet, how unequal the world’s health problems are particularly in countries like HIV and Aids stricken Africa, and how as a nation we are becoming more and more obese. Society needs scientists to help find solutions to these complex problems, so what does a career in science offer to young people and how can we ensure a respect for those who practice in their respective scientific professions?

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Cambridge University Intellectual Property Rights Business Breakfast – October 2006
Cambridge University has adopted an open door policy to tell business leaders and major sponsors how it intends to operate its policy on Intellectual Property rights. During the early autumn it hosted three seminars in Cambridge and London in order to take its mission to explain the new IP policy to those small, medium and large business leaders and sponsors who might work in partnership with the University on research in the future. Journalist Boni Sones attended one London event.

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ECS CamCasting covered ACEVO’s international conference and provided an analytical report.
Boni Sones interviewed key speakers and produced the following audio presentation of key moments in the conference. "While more and more people appear to be opting out of traditional political activity there has undoubtedly been a rise in the numbers of people engaging in so called single issue” campaigns. All over the world charities and the voluntary sector are working as a catalyst for change. In the United Kingdom the Global third sector has never been more prominent.

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