What keeps Charlie Brooker up at night?
The News Agents
Global
4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Over ten years ago, Black Mirror burst onto our screens, bringing with it dystopian futures and exploring themes of how humanity would deal with rapidly evolving technology. Now in its seventh series, how much of this is a far-off future? And in 2025, are we now closer to the world of Black Mirror than ever before?
Charlie Brooker joins Emily and Lewis in the studio to talk about how his own anxieties shape Black Mirror, the future of TV in a world of AI, and why he believes humanity will triumph in the end.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.4 | We'd like to welcome you back. |
| 0:18.7 | Ready? |
| 0:19.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.4 | Three, two. |
| 0:21.6 | And action. |
| 0:23.6 | You call it mind expanding. |
| 0:25.6 | It alters your neuronal structure. |
| 0:29.6 | The mind is a computer. |
| 0:31.6 | ... |
| 0:32.6 | Suddenly, we're not just more receptive. |
| 0:40.6 | You become a receiver. |
| 0:44.0 | For the last decade, Charlie Brooker has been filling our lives, and indeed our nights, |
| 0:49.8 | with a kind of existential dread about the way technology is taking over. Black Mirror, |
| 0:55.7 | a metaphor for the cell phone to which we're all addicted, is now in its seventh season. |
| 1:00.7 | And this latest one is just as terrifying, but for the first time feels tangibly closer to home. |
| 1:07.9 | It's no longer really sci-fi. It's no longer a world of prediction. It's a world we all |
| 1:15.1 | recognise one we have to make choices within. This is Charlie Brooker showing us the human side, |
| 1:21.5 | the human cost of innovation and the tech revolution. And spoiler alert, it's not all bad. Some of it is actually quite beautiful. |
| 1:31.1 | He's here in Newsagents HQ for an extended conversation about his work, what it does to all of us, |
| 1:37.2 | and what keeps him up at night. Welcome to the newsagents. |
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