Listener Week: Generative AI, Female thatchers, Big noses, Communal living
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For Listener Week, you, our listeners, decide what we cover on the programme.
Listener Liane has tasked the programme with a deep dive into the impact of generative Artificial Intelligence on the workforce. She’s concerned that AI risks making humans “obsolete” and “has the capacity to replace millions of people's creative ideas, artwork, writing, music, their skills in language, invention and interpretation in seconds.” We speak to Dame Diane Coyle, the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at Cambridge University, and Christina Colclough, founder of the Why Not Lab specialising in the futures of work.
Listener Deb emailed in to shine a light on the work of her daughter Daisy and her partner Anna, thatchers who have worked on rooves all over Devon. Our reporter Sarah Swadling caught up with them at work on a cottage near Okehampton.
How do you feel about your nose? Once considered a symbol of beauty and power in ancient Rome, having a slightly larger facial feature nowadays can have a different meaning for some. Do you embrace it in its natural form or have you ever thought about changing it? We speak to Radhika Sanghani, who started the #sideprofileselfie campaign; and Karolina who decided to have a rhinoplasty.
Listener Annette has often thought about living with her female friends in old age but she doesn’t know how to go about it. To answer her questions, we speak to architect Anne Thorne, who has recently built Cannock Mill CoHousing with 25 other households. And Mim Skinner, author of Living Together, a book about intentional communities in the UK and beyond.
Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lucy Wai Studio Manager: Gayl Gordan
00:00 OPENER 02:17 AI AND AUTOMATION 17.45 TRAIL 18:57 FEMALE THATCHERS 32:00 BIG NOSES 45:51 COMMUNAL LIVING
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| 0:00.0 | He's a rule breaker, a trend setter. He reshaped art and redefined graffiti. |
| 0:07.4 | How does he smell? |
| 0:08.4 | Like paint. |
| 0:09.3 | Has he got any distinction features? |
| 0:10.8 | His anonymity. |
| 0:11.9 | But who is he? |
| 0:13.2 | What's his name? |
| 0:14.1 | Banksy. |
| 0:15.0 | Apparently I've met him twice. |
| 0:16.5 | The Banksy story. |
| 0:18.0 | Banksy's work is always about the human spirit versus establishment. |
| 0:24.2 | Listen on BBC Science. |
| 0:27.4 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:37.9 | Good morning and welcome to the final day of listener week. |
| 0:42.2 | Huge heartfelt thank you to every one of you who sent in your suggestions. |
| 0:45.8 | It's been such an interesting week of hearing your stories. |
| 0:48.8 | Please keep sending them in to us. |
| 0:51.9 | We'd love to have more of your ideas. |
| 0:54.0 | But it's not over yet. |
| 0:55.6 | Today we're going to be talking about a subject that I'm very interested in actually. |
| 0:59.8 | Women with large noses. |
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