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Barbs Wire
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
Episodes
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: AI learns to copy itself, bots fake the hits and Google gives an emoji a backside
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Paris loses a 400-year-old landmark, Frances's supermarket fridges hacked, a 194-year-old tortoise may hold clues to longevity
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Altai the tiger survives, Tuscan $6m wine-heist audacity, dramatic Jonkershoek airlift
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Dating app audacity, Beijing tennis chaos and one very vocal church husky
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Suspected plague scare, an AI crocodile panic and Siya rolls back into Cape Town
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Thrill-jump outrage, a brand-new penguin and an 11-year-old chess history-maker
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: World Cup fame bites back, seniors struggle with the algorithm and Rod says farewell to touring
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Kids outsmart social media bans, Cape Town thieves steal a robot and Oom Gert saves the day
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Robot runways, a six-year-old speedcubing genius and 99 days left of 2026
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: White House TV promos go retro, a ski resort freezes in time and lemurs hit the high notes
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Cape street-race chaos, New York’s loo countdown and Chihuahuas’ wild DNA
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Newsroom tragedy, dictionary glow-ups and a $60 loaf in SoHo
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:20 News…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Fury over women killings grows, Tiger’s Milk backlash and a world record in salt and pepper
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:10 Fury…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Sydney Sweeney backlash, stronger Champagne and Detective Benson solves the Emmys
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:15 Sydney…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Bok fans pack Baltimore 'home game', HYROX gets messy and Pierce Brosnan clocks 007
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:00…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: AI warnings, hot-drink risks and 2,977 lights over New York
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:40…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Boks chase Baltimore bucks, Roselle’s 9/11 heroics and Star Trek turns 60
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:14…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Wimbledon bans influencer chaos, Cheslin posts from hospital, and Cape baboons impending captivity
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:15 Social…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Alzheimer’s prevention hope, one student versus a river and Boks get vuvuzela love in Baltimore
Digital Content Editor, Barbara Friedman, shared her top three stories trending online. Views and News with Clarence Ford is the mid-morning show on CapeTalk…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Airlink’s grounded encore, late-2020s panic and Grey Beard’s Appalachian triumph
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:11…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: US Open etiquette fails, Dolly’s star vandalised, and Airlink flyover becomes a game
the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:10 Tennis etiquette at the US Open comes under fire 05:47 Dolly Parton gets a new star on the Hollywood…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Times Square horror, pheromone-maxxing stink and Punch the monkey’s goodbye crowd
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:29 Police…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Flyovers Rassie’s F-bomb, Baseline’s glow-up and America’s toilet-paper problem
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:10…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Nepal flood horror, Dolly’s royal 9 to 5 and Tim Curry’s final curtain
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:15 CCTV…
Barbs WireBarbs WIre: Dolly tributes, Callaway’s ad disaster and Japan’s human-powered castle move
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:02…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: 9/11 DNA breakthrough, plastic-bottle cookies and Amazon’s drone-drop chaos
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:20…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Screen-time curveball, crying emoji takeover and Haaland’s hair shock
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:30 Study…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Cancer-vaccine hope, plane-etiquette merch and Angélique Kidjo’s Hollywood history
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:26…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Rusks meet diplomacy, China embraces terrible animation and a goose saves the barn
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:22…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Album-drop driving danger, pigeon-speed messaging, and Bean’s rescue at sea
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:16 Study…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Delivery driver respite, Bumble’s big dating flip and Tyla’s SAMA love letter
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:10…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Eclipse-mania, emotionally fluent dogs and gamers in the control tower
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:13 The…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Dobby’s grave wins, Mars bars relic shows shrinkflation and SA speaks fluent car lights
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:50 Harry…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: SA snow pics go viral, Colombia quake horror and Edinburgh cheers the fitted-sheet guy
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:20 Snow…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Bathroom politics, allergy-free beagles and Bok jersey fever
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:10 New…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Hotel Wi-Fi traps warning, mammoth bones in the Danube and Jamie Oliver’s gum war
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:20…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: LinkedIn fights AI slop, a Baltic swim makes history and Spanish farmers finds donkeys alive after wildfires
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:43…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Gen Z pretends to work, shrub cops catch texters and Fireman and Stephen finally reunited
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:12 Study…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Pre-school escape artists, cruise fork horror and Woolies’ Godzilla avos
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:16 Two…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Beach landing, influencer degrees and Axel’s Downing Street snub
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:05 An…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Durban delivery driver hit-and-run, Venezuela’s miracle dog and Fireman’s journey home
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:46 CCTV…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Tour de france support-car chaos, AI speech awkwardness and Punch turns one
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:17 Support…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: AI goes rogue, Hitler’s birthplace gets a badge and Larry the Cat faces a dog dilemma at No.10
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:17…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Robbie’s mint defence, coffee’s redemption, and the sax that made Pink Panther purr goes silent
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:33 Robbie…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: World Cup final fury, Erling Haaland’s comment-section era and Uber Rob’s accidental night out
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:07 FIFA…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: World Cup final viral moments, a porta-potty rescue and Jimothy the raccoon’s cult following
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:16 FIFA…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: TV reporter's cockroach composure, sugar in space and Messi’s baby-photo destiny
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:29…
Barbs WireBarbs wire: Exploding gut, smoking nostalgia and Haaland’s stuffed raccoon
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:10…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Russian gun chaos, a Yellowstone bison launch and FIFA’s $450 grass grab
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:25…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Guggenheim gets tested for Legionnaires, Norwegian Air wears BA’s colours, and Fireman and his human reunited in Malawi
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:28 The…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Waymo snitches, Norway’s football sons rise and a flight turns into viral World Cup momentsi class
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:20…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Table Mountain safety fears, World Cup gets half time show, and airline mocks passengers who jump the aisle
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:58 Reports…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: VAR fury, a wobbling NYC tower and Dolly the dog’s happy homecoming
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:12 VAR…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Molly Tea’s logo drama, a flipping iceberg and a baby with Bad Bunny rhythm
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:12 Logo…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: 4th July fireworks misfire, Harry Potter keeps hope alive, and Norway's Erling Haaland makes history
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:15 Fourth…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: France swelters, AI calls in the humans and birds building with war cables
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:08…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Bafana returns to World Cup cheers, RIP roadside beers and one very social missing dog
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:08 Bafana…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: SA’s tense marches, a 96-year-old party queen and Venezuela’s rescue dog hero
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 01:18…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: Bafana make history, Gen Z fake-shops for dopamine and Gracie the giraffe is still on the run in Texas
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:11 Bafana…
Barbs WireBarbs Wire: WhatsApp wants R29, a monkey masters the seesaw and Norway rows into World Cup folklore
Clarence Ford speaks to Primedia Digital Content Editor Barbara Friedman on Barbs Wire about the latest trending stories. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:05…