Ghosts - Isy Suttie, Laurence Rickard, Ciarán O'Keeffe and Chris French

This BBC Podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. So uh quick summer recap. Heat waves, data leaks, AI hacks, folding phones, and a virals finally challenged raccoon. Yeah, I think that uh that covers it, right? I'm Thomas Germain. I'm Jess Maddox, and the interface is back from its summer break. New season, new co-host, same deep dives into the tech. that's shaping our world and our lives.

So before AI wipes out all of humanity, allegedly join us for the interface. Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, I'm Jessica Foster Q. And I'm Adam Rutherford and this is the Infinite Monkey Cage and it is the spookiest time of the year. Well, half term. Also terrifying, but no, it's Halloween. Oh yeah. Now this is a science programme. I am a scientist, and obviously we are both fully wedded to a materialist an empirical view of the objective universe. So today we're doing ghosts.

Why do we see them? What exactly is ectoplasm? And do ghosts actually exist? And I'm going with yes they do. Sorry. Yes, obviously ghosts exist and I'm not even joking. I thought you were a scienceman. Well let's get into it in the show. We have summoned

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