China's Great Firewall fails
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
This week journalist and author James Griffiths explains how the Great Firewall of China works - and why it failed to stop the recent wave of protests there. Reporter Alasdair Keane meets the robots that could provide a helping hand to the most vulnerable. And game developer Colin Macdonald reflects on the unlikely origins of Grand Theft Auto, as the game franchise turns 25.
(Photo: protestors on the streets of China. Credit: Getty images)
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| 0:00.0 | On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.6 | And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:08.3 | In this series, we're going to have a planet off. |
| 0:10.8 | I feel like Jupiter wins. |
| 0:12.8 | And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit. |
| 0:15.9 | We're talking about your bog standard. |
| 0:17.8 | Ice, not the fancy one. |
| 0:20.1 | Science with funny bits. |
| 0:21.9 | The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:24.1 | Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.3 | Welcome to TechTent with me Tom Singleton. |
| 0:34.1 | China is on our mind this week as protesters defy the much-vaunted great firewall |
| 0:39.3 | to start and spread protests. More on that in a moment. But that's not all. |
| 0:44.2 | Hello. I'm Pepper. |
| 0:46.3 | We meet the robots changing how we spot and manage infections. We hear from the company |
| 0:51.6 | in a chilly country with a sunny view about how technology can drive a solar revolution. |
| 0:56.9 | And who remembers this guy? |
| 0:58.8 | And let's come round here. |
| 1:00.5 | This is the bangs and crashes department, sound effects. |
| 1:03.0 | What are you going to give us? |
| 1:04.6 | Rory Kethlyn Jones there, the BBC's former technology correspondent, of course, and host of this program, |
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