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  1. A new look at Dr Who - The Science Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

    Dr Who has been described as a significant part of British popular culture, and has developed a cult following amongst viewers. The Dr and his companions have in a way represented humanity as they face foes and work to save civilisations. Since its inception in 1963, Dr Who has been played by 11 actors. This has been represented as a regeneration. But curiously Dr Who has always been played by a white male. In the course of her in-depth study, Lindy Orthia has watched every episode of Dr Who and considers the place of race in this all-time television favourite.

    Guests: Lindy Orthia, Lecturer; Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University, Canberra ACT

    http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/a-new-look-at-dr-who/4649676

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  2. Four Thought: Tom Armitage: The Coded World

    Designer and technologist Tom Armitage argues that learning to write computer code means learning to think in a modern way, and that it should spur creativity: the possibility of doing entirely new things.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/fourthought

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  3. Interview with Daniel Kahneman

    Tim Harford interviews Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics. The author of Thinking, Fast and Slow describes the common mistakes people make with statistics.

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  4. BBC - Desert Island Discs - Castaway : Brian Aldiss

    Kirsty Young’s castaway is writer Brian Aldiss.

    Kirsty Young’s castaway this week is the author Brian Aldiss. He is best known for pioneering, alongside JG Ballard, a new wave of British science fiction writing in the 1960s. He says science fiction is not so much a prediction of the future as a metaphor for the human condition; and for him, at least, writing it offered an escape route and a filter through which to view his own extraordinary upbringing. He grew up in a small Norfolk village in a very devout and austere home. While his father was distant, his mother was still suffering from the grief after her first child, a daughter, was still-born. He was the second child and even when he was very small, remembers feeling a strong sense of his mother’s disappointment in him.

    The army finally offered a way out for him and it was on his return to England that he started writing seriously while also working in a bookshop. One of his early works was a short story describing the sadness felt by a boy who was never able to please his parents, which was turned into a film by Stanley Kubrick. While he remains best known for his science fiction writing - and has won every major award in the field - he has also written novels, poetry and biographies and short stories. Now, he says, he aims not for high sales but to become a better and better writer.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/fab50882#p0093tnd

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  5. Dead Code: Ghosts Of The Digital Age by Jeff Noon

    Set in the ruins of a housing estate in a futuristic, post-digital age world, where music haunts the streets, Joe and Dixie are struggling with the loss of Charlie. Dixie is doing her best to hold on to Joe, but will she succeed when the force of Charlie’s memory is so strong?

    With original music by Vini Reilly of The Durutti Column, songs by Urban Blue and sound design by Steve Brooke.

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  6. Four Thought: James Bridle

    James Bridle asks how computer networks will affect cultural memories.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/fourthought

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  7. A Short History Of Story: Part one

    Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today’s online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive/all

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  8. A Short History Of Story: Part Two

    Noah Richler traces the development of storytelling from the earliest creation myths through to today’s online gaming and the recording of our personal lives by way of social media.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/docarchive/all

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  9. In Our Time With Melvyn Bragg: Game Theory

    The history of ideas discussed by Melvyn Bragg and guests including Philosophy, science, literature, religion and the influence these ideas have on us today.

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making. Some of the games studied in game theory have become well known outside academia - they include the Prisoner’s Dilemma, an intriguing scenario popularised in novels and films. Today game theory is seen as an important tool in evolutionary biology, economics, computing and philosophy. Melvyn Bragg is joined by Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick; Andrew Colman, Professor of Psychology at the University of Leicester and Richard Bradley, Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/iot

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  10. The Digital Future

    On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks into the digital future. Nick Harkaway dismisses fears of a digital dystopia in which distracted people, caught between the real world and the screen world, are under constant surveillance. He believes we need to engage with the computers we have created, and shape our own destiny. Simon Ings is the editor of a new digital magazine, Arc, which uses science fiction to explore and explain what the future might hold for society. While Anab Jain’s design company uses scenarios and prototypes to probe emerging technologies and ideas, from headsets to help the blind to see, to everyday objects with their very own internet connection. And Charles Arthur investigates the battle for dominance of the internet with Apple, Google and Microsoft struggling to stay on top, and asks what that means for the rest of us.

    Start The Week sets the cultural agenda for the week ahead, with high-profile guests discussing the ideas behind their work in the fields of art, literature, film, science, history, society and politics.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/stw

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