Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Web guru Tim O'Reilly on algorithm regulation and the magical worlds of Harry Potter, Philip Pullman and Tove Jansson with guests Aisha Bushby, young adult author, and New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough.
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| 0:46.4 | We're taking a witch-as-eye look at spells and magic and what we know about the mystical world around us |
| 0:52.4 | as we explore children's writing from authors including |
| 0:55.8 | Philip Pullman, J.K. Rowling and Tovey Janssen. And what might literary divination and tea leaf |
| 1:02.2 | reading tell us about the future as we imagine it as we take a tour around the new Tovey Janssen |
| 1:08.2 | exhibition? She's depicting things on the edge of our consciousness |
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