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The ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ News podcast gives you the opportunity to listen to the latest news andÌýresearch from around ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ every fortnight.

Split up into three parts, you can either listen to the podcast all in one go, or save features for later listening.

In the news section this week we are joined by Farlan Veraitch a senior lecturer in Biochemical Engineering who has helped launch a new competition called Sounds of ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳. The competition is about recording ambient soundtracks in different ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ locations. Farlan chats about his personal interest in audio mixing and editing soundscapes into music.

Also in the news section we highlight some recent high profile ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ research. This week new research by Sadie Boniface and Nicola Shelton in ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ Epidemiology and Public Health suggests that three quarters of people in England drink in excess of the recommended daily alcohol limit.

×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ History also hit the headlines this week as they launched the first freely accessible database of Britons involved in slave-ownership. The Legacies of British Slave-ownership project has documented around 46,000 individual claims and awards made to those who either owned slaves or benefited indirectly from ownership.Ìý

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How we mishear lyrics

This week we've decided to focus on a single, slightly longer, audio feature. Professor Andrew Nevins from ×î×¼µÄÁùºÏ²ÊÂÛ̳ Psychology and Language Sciences has collected over 400 naturally examples of so-called "slips of the ear" and has come up with some key reasons why we often mishear song lyrics. He explains using entertaining examples from famous pop songs including Abba's Super Trooper and Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze.

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