In Our Time · 2026-10-15 · 59 min · 10,221 words

Thomas More's Utopia

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This BBC Podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. This week on the interface, we tackle the question of Does AI feel pain? Listen, I was an emo kid in the two thousands too. This is not that novel. It does, yeah. It sort of sounds like cure lyrics, you know. Plus.

Does anything actually go viral anymore? It's actually kinda blowing my mind. Join me, Jess Maddox and me, Thomas Germain, for the interface. Listen on bbc.com or wherever you get your podcasts. A mission to repair a telescape. Hundreds of kilometers above the air. This is the real deal.

Let's go fix this thing. From the BBC World Service, 13 minutes, Trouble with Hubble. The inside story of a Hubble space telescope. Told by the people who made it happen. It's dangerous. 13 minutes trouble with Hubble.

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