The Global Story: The AI model that’s ‘too powerful’ to be released to the public
Anthropic - one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI firms - recently announced that they have built a model which is too dangerous to be released to the public.Instead, they are only giving access to the m...
19 Apr 27min
The Happy Pod: Filling the empty chair left by my best friend
We meet the man helping to tackle loneliness by offering strangers somewhere to sit and chat. Dean Perryman started the Empty Chairs project, honouring the memory of his best friend. After he posted t...
18 Apr 26min
The Global Story: The medications that can trigger sex and gambling addictions
A BBC investigation has heard from hundreds of people who say they developed sex and gambling addictions after taking a category of prescription drugs called dopamine agonists. Millions of people in t...
12 Apr 27min
The Happy Pod: From a small town, to the moon
The mayor of Ingersoll beams with pride at the Canadian town being represented on Artemis II. Ingersoll is home to 15,000 people, including the astronaut Jeremy Hansen - who is the mission specialist....
11 Apr 27min
The Happy Pod: The decades long wait for the World Cup
We now know the 48 nations that will be competing in the summer's FIFA World Cup. The final two sides to qualify - Iraq and the DRC - have each waited decades to return to the competition. We hear fro...
4 Apr 26min
The Global Story: Are we heading for World War Three?
It’s been almost a month since Israel and the US launched their war against Iran, and already there have been strikes in more than a dozen countries, with reports of over 2,000 people killed across th...
29 Mars 28min
The Happy Pod: The hug that stopped a bombing
A patient who stopped a bomb attack at a hospital has revealed he hugged the would-be-attacker to calm him down. Nathan Newby spent two hours talking to the armed man and persuaded him to abandon his ...
28 Mars 26min
The Global Story:How does war affect a child’s brain?
For nearly forty years, Fergal Keane has reported for the BBC from some of the world’s most brutal conflicts – in Gaza, Iraq, Rwanda, Sudan, Ukraine and beyond – and in that time interviewed scores of...
22 Mars 27min
