Loud music, whooshing coffee machines, clanging cutlery and raised voices fill the air in many restaurants.
Professor Carl Hopkins, the head of the Acoustics Research Unit at the University of Liverpool, is with Jim to talk about what can be done to tone things down and why restaurant noise can be so uncomfortable.
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