Night Waves - Artificial Intelligence
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2012
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Matthew Sweet speaks to acclaimed director Michael Grandage whose theatre company launches with a new production of Peter Nichols's celebrated play Privates on Parade. As a new centre in Cambridge is set up to assess the dangers that might arise from progress in artificial intelligence, Matthew talks to one of its founders Sir Martin Rees and sustainability innovator Rachel Armstrong. And Jonas Mekas, film-maker, artist, poet, and a leading figure of avant-garde and experimental cinema, discusses his remarkable and prolific sixty-year career.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps |
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| 0:32.1 | This is a download from the BBC. For more information and our terms of use, go to BBC.co.uk slash radio three. |
| 0:40.9 | Tonight we'll decide whether to plan for the end of the world, or decide that the balloon has gone up for the very concept of the end of the world. |
| 0:48.3 | And we'll talk to a great survivor of cinema's avant-garde, Jonas Mekas, who endured a Nazi labour camp, |
| 0:55.1 | an American prison, Warhol's factory and Lennon's bed-in. |
| 0:59.0 | First, though, meet the gang, because the boys are here, |
| 1:01.8 | the boys to entertain you. |
| 1:03.5 | Come see the private song parade. |
| 1:07.5 | You'll say how proudly they're displayed. |
| 1:30.7 | And when we hear the music of a military band you'll be amazed how smartly we can take our stand for when the bugle sounds attack up goes the good old union jack you may as well surrender when you hear our battle cry. |
| 1:34.8 | There'll be no more escaping when we raise our weapons high. |
| 1:41.6 | And in the victory cavalcade, you'll see the privates on parade. |
| 1:48.5 | Simon Russell Beelen cast in Peter Nichols' Privots on Parade, a musical drama about a concert party during the Malayan emergency of 1948 and revived this week in London with the use of fixed |
| 1:54.8 | bayonets, padded bras and one fruity Carmen Miranda headdress. |
| 1:59.3 | It's the opening production of a 15-month sequence of plays |
| 2:02.3 | directed by Michael Grandage, the former chief of the Donmar Warehouse, a season which will deploy |
| 2:07.8 | the star power of Judy Dench, Ben Wishaw and Jude Law. It's not the first time Grandage has touched |
| 2:13.8 | privates on parade. He did it at the Donmar with Roger Allum a decade ago, and the work |
| 2:18.4 | itself is now 35 years old. When Michael Grandage came into the studio this morning, I asked him |
| 2:23.8 | about the play's take on history. It expresses a deep dissatisfaction with Atlees Britain, and |
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