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Primedia Digital Editor Barbara Friedman has an unstoppable curiosity for all things weird and quirky and trawls the internet to bring you her daily choice of curated stories - Monday to Thursday at 9.35am #BarbsWire

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100 episodi

  1. Barbs Wire: Teen rescued after 521 days thanks to online game, Sony revives iconic Walkman headphones, and runaway corgi steals the show at NFL match 12:17
  2. Barbs Wire: Free treats for voters, 'mogging' is the word of the year, and Netflix wants to know your mood! 11:30
  3. Barbs Wire: Halloween sweets horror in Germany, thieves steal thousands of rare ants, and cinema fans prepare to forget their favourite films! 12:17
  4. Barbs Wire: Cruel prank backfires spectacularly, childhood chore list divides the internet, and Heidi Klum gives Halloween a hand! 12:43
  5. Barbs Wire: Cape Town bridge struck AGAIN, Google under fire over 400,000 felled trees, and SA daredevil conquers 600 monkey bars 13:22
  6. Barbs Wire: 'Maxxing' takes over the dictionary, Siya Kolisi meets the parents, and the voice of Bugs Bunny dies at 46 8:39
  7. Barbs Wire: Cop accused of taking dead man's house, AI food pictures go hilariously wrong, and a kindness mob takes on internet trolls 11:16
  8. Barbs Wire: AI exposes a global cyber threat, Airbnb ditches checkout chores, and the hilarious names kids give their mums 12:12
  9. Barbs Wire: Designer loot hits resale, 48 beers hide in a stroller and Sgiath sniffs out sea vomit 10:43
  10. Barbs Wire: Musk gives away SpaceX, Gen Z struggles to thrive and Elmo goes on safari 12:22
  11. Barbs Wire: Protests in France through social media lens, Nelson Mandela Marathon kicks off, and Luna survives Yellowstone 13:04
  12. Barbs Wire: Power-bank fire at 35,000 feet, a wearable incubator brings dad closer and Pooh turns 100 11:39
  13. Barbs Wire: AI learns to copy itself, bots fake the hits and Google gives an emoji a backside 12:02
  14. Barbs Wire: Paris loses a 400-year-old landmark, Frances's supermarket fridges hacked, a 194-year-old tortoise may hold clues to longevity 8:25
  15. Barbs Wire: Altai the tiger survives, Tuscan $6m wine-heist audacity, dramatic Jonkershoek airlift 9:50
  16. Barbs Wire: Dating app audacity, Beijing tennis chaos and one very vocal church husky 10:18
  17. Barbs Wire: Suspected plague scare, an AI crocodile panic and Siya rolls back into Cape Town 10:06
  18. Barbs Wire: Thrill-jump outrage, a brand-new penguin and an 11-year-old chess history-maker 15:12
  19. Barbs Wire: World Cup fame bites back, seniors struggle with the algorithm and Rod says farewell to touring 8:05
  20. Barbs Wire: Kids outsmart social media bans, Cape Town thieves steal a robot and Oom Gert saves the day 14:20
  21. Barbs Wire: Robot runways, a six-year-old speedcubing genius and 99 days left of 2026 10:12
  22. Barbs Wire: White House TV promos go retro, a ski resort freezes in time and lemurs hit the high notes 11:57
  23. Barbs Wire: Cape street-race chaos, New York’s loo countdown and Chihuahuas’ wild DNA 14:10
  24. Barbs Wire: Newsroom tragedy, dictionary glow-ups and a $60 loaf in SoHo 10:02
  25. Barbs Wire: Fury over women killings grows, Tiger’s Milk backlash and a world record in salt and pepper 11:30
  26. Barbs Wire: Sydney Sweeney backlash, stronger Champagne and Detective Benson solves the Emmys 11:42
  27. Barbs Wire: Bok fans pack Baltimore 'home game', HYROX gets messy and Pierce Brosnan clocks 007 13:57
  28. Barbs Wire: AI warnings, hot-drink risks and 2,977 lights over New York 11:20
  29. Barbs Wire: Boks chase Baltimore bucks, Roselle’s 9/11 heroics and Star Trek turns 60 13:54
  30. Barbs Wire: Wimbledon bans influencer chaos, Cheslin posts from hospital, and Cape baboons impending captivity 12:30
  31. Barbs Wire: Alzheimer’s prevention hope, one student versus a river and Boks get vuvuzela love in Baltimore 13:53
  32. Barbs Wire: Airlink’s grounded encore, late-2020s panic and Grey Beard’s Appalachian triumph 7:26
  33. Barbs Wire: US Open etiquette fails, Dolly’s star vandalised, and Airlink flyover becomes a game 11:07
  34. Barbs Wire: Times Square horror, pheromone-maxxing stink and Punch the monkey’s goodbye crowd 11:02
  35. Barbs Wire: Flyovers Rassie’s F-bomb, Baseline’s glow-up and America’s toilet-paper problem 12:42
  36. Barbs Wire: Nepal flood horror, Dolly’s royal 9 to 5 and Tim Curry’s final curtain 8:37
  37. Barbs WIre: Dolly tributes, Callaway’s ad disaster and Japan’s human-powered castle move 12:07
  38. Barbs Wire: 9/11 DNA breakthrough, plastic-bottle cookies and Amazon’s drone-drop chaos 6:20
  39. Barbs Wire: Screen-time curveball, crying emoji takeover and Haaland’s hair shock 12:39
  40. Barbs Wire: Cancer-vaccine hope, plane-etiquette merch and Angélique Kidjo’s Hollywood history 9:26
  41. Barbs Wire: Rusks meet diplomacy, China embraces terrible animation and a goose saves the barn 10:10
  42. Barbs Wire: Album-drop driving danger, pigeon-speed messaging, and Bean’s rescue at sea 10:12
  43. Barbs Wire: Delivery driver respite, Bumble’s big dating flip and Tyla’s SAMA love letter 10:24
  44. Barbs Wire: Eclipse-mania, emotionally fluent dogs and gamers in the control tower 12:21
  45. Barbs Wire: Dobby’s grave wins, Mars bars relic shows shrinkflation and SA speaks fluent car lights 12:09
  46. Barbs Wire: SA snow pics go viral, Colombia quake horror and Edinburgh cheers the fitted-sheet guy 9:53
  47. Barbs Wire: Bathroom politics, allergy-free beagles and Bok jersey fever 10:30
  48. Barbs Wire: Hotel Wi-Fi traps warning, mammoth bones in the Danube and Jamie Oliver’s gum war 9:20
  49. Barbs Wire: LinkedIn fights AI slop, a Baltic swim makes history and Spanish farmers finds donkeys alive after wildfires 11:38
  50. Barbs Wire: Gen Z pretends to work, shrub cops catch texters and Fireman and Stephen finally reunited 9:59