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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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We’re all about AI today. As AI-generated music tops US charts, a musician explains how he uses AI in the songwriting process. A fashion house explains how they use it to help sizing issues. And with the festive season approaching, there is a warning over its use in children’s toys.
Presenter: Shiona McCallum Producer: Imran Rahman-Jones Studio manager: Nolwenn Movallali
(Image: Manon Dave wearing a baseball cap, a white T-shirt and jeans, sitting on a stage wearing a head mic. He is gesturing with his hands mid-sentence. Credit: Getty Images.)
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:07.4 | This is the story of a book. |
| 0:09.8 | It's a wonderful book. |
| 0:10.9 | She's an immensely valuable writer. |
| 0:13.1 | Award winning, commercially and critically successful. |
| 0:16.5 | Then, cancelled. |
| 0:18.3 | It just infuriates me. |
| 0:19.9 | You're reinforcing stereotypes. |
| 0:21.9 | I remember feeling sick by page 8. |
| 0:24.5 | A culture war about race, class, and who has the right to say what? |
| 0:28.9 | I do not think that I wrote in any way a racist book. |
| 0:32.7 | Shadow World, anatomy of a cancellation. |
| 0:35.5 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:37.4 | As the year draws to a close, many of us are busy at the shops buying presents for our families, |
| 0:43.3 | especially this past weekend with Black Friday and Cyber Monday. |
| 0:47.2 | But there's a warning over certain children's toys. |
| 0:50.9 | We've put together an advisory over the past week that really urges families not to buy AI |
| 0:58.6 | toys. Or what about if you want to treat yourself to something, maybe a new pair of jeans? |
| 1:04.6 | In fashion, four centimetres is a size. So 14 centimetres difference means there's three and a half |
| 1:10.5 | sizes different between the biggest and the |
| 1:12.5 | smallest size 2018 in front of us. We'll be meeting the team behind an AI tool helping to reduce |
| 1:18.5 | wastage in the fashion industry. And what about when you get home? You just want to put on some |
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