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What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?
10/10 Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, on AI and Douglas Adams.
Kids With Guns
9/10 Emma Butcher looks at the view of war in the childhood writings of the Bronte family.
Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present
8/10 Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and now.
A War of Words
6/10 Christopher Bannister on the way a fashion show in Buenos Aires helped win World War II.
Doing Nothing
5/10 Alistair Fraser on teenagers, gangs and filling time.
Educating Ida
4/10 Eleanor Lybeck on the women campaigners satirised in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?
3/10 Tom Simpson on a study of suspicion in a 1950s Italian village and community relations now
Art for Health's Sake
2/10 Daisy Fancourt's research shows the arts can improve health so should we prescribe them?
Welling Up: Women and Water in the Middle Ages
1/10 Hetta Howes looks at male fears + why Margery Kempe was criticised for crying and bleeding
