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Eleanor Drage is one of the UK’s leading AI ethicists and gender studies researchers, working at the University of Cambridge. Her first book, What If We Got AI Right? How to stop catastrophising and b...
14 Jul 28min
The making of an icon, with Beatriz Garcia-Velasco
In her short lifetime of just 47 years, Frida Kahlo was a relatively little-known artist. Now, she's a global icon. And while her actual work is hard to come by, her image is not. Tate Modern's Frid...
13 Jul 22min
Nicky Denson-Elliott is a professional feminist
Nicky Denson-Elliott knows that a high tide lifts all boats. She first came to our Mick’s attention because of her current campaign to replace ‘hysterectomy’ with ‘uterectomy’ in NHS patient materials...
10 Jul 28min
The Bush Telegraph: Leathery arses all around
Mickey and Hannah bring you a veritable rogues gallery this week: Farage, Trump, Infantino, a vigilante cat shaver. Shall we go on a 2,400-mile rowing trip to get away from it? Sure. But don't forget ...
9 Jul 24min
Rated or Dated: Escape to Victory (1981)
Hollywood giant John Huston directs Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone and – wait – Pelé, in this sports-war drama, reimagining the 1942 “Death Match”. But how bad can a prisoner of war camp be when al...
8 Jul 26min
Havoc and hysteria, with Rebecca Wait
Author Rebecca Wait makes a return visit to the podcast to chat to Hannah about her latest book Havoc, a dark comedy about a mystery illness that breaks out at a girls' boarding school in 1984. They c...
7 Jul 25min
A not-dying art form, with Leyla Nazli and Lisa Logan
This summer marks the 19th year of the Arcola Theatre’s seminal Grimeborn festival, a season of new and reworked operas. Jen chats to the Arcola’s executive director, Leyla Nazli and Lisa Logan, the ...
6 Jul 27min
Get Ahead of Being Dead, with Evie King
After her first book - Ashes to Admin - was published, a lot of people got in touch with Evie King to tell her they'd been inspired to get plans in place for the end of their lives. If that's what she...
3 Jul 27min
