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A listener doubts her popularity on the dating app Tinder. We investigate the numbers.
This month we’re talking to bestselling British writer JoJo Moyes about her wildly popular novel Me Before You. Lou is a small town girl in need of a job. Will is a successful high-powered city trader who becomes wheelchair bound following an accident and decides he doesn’t want to go on living.
And then Lou is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But Lou is determined to prove that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could have imagined.
(Image: Jojo Moyes. Photo credit: Stine Heilmann.)
Society is at a turning point, warns Professor Shoshana Zuboff. Democracy and liberty are under threat as capitalism and the digital revolution combine forces. She tells Andrew Marr how new technologies are not only mining our minds for data, but radically changing them in the process. As Facebook celebrates its 15th birthday she examines what happens when a few companies have unprecedented power and little democratic oversight.
Although behavioural data is constantly being abstracted by tech companies, John Thornhill, Innovations Editor at the Financial Times, questions whether they have yet worked out how to use it effectively to manipulate people. And he argues that the technological revolution has brought many innovations which have benefitted society.
The award-winning writer Ece Temelkuran has warned readers about rising authoritarianism in her native Turkey. In her new book, How To Lose a Country, she widens that warning to the rest of the world. She argues that right-wing populism and nationalism do not appear already fully-formed in government - but creep insidiously in the shadows, unchallenged and underestimated until too late.
Producer: Katy Hickman
Society is at a turning point, warns Professor Shoshana Zuboff. Democracy and liberty are under threat as capitalism and the digital revolution combine forces. She tells Andrew Marr how new technologies are not only mining our minds for data, but radically changing them in the process. As Facebook celebrates its 15th birthday she examines what happens when a few companies have unprecedented power and little democratic oversight.
Although behavioural data is constantly being abstracted by tech companies, John Thornhill, Innovations Editor at the Financial Times, questions whether they have yet worked out how to use it effectively to manipulate people. And he argues that the technological revolution has brought many innovations which have benefitted society.
The award-winning writer Ece Temelkuran has warned readers about rising authoritarianism in her native Turkey. In her new book, How To Lose a Country, she widens that warning to the rest of the world. She argues that right-wing populism and nationalism do not appear already fully-formed in government - but creep insidiously in the shadows, unchallenged and underestimated until too late.
Producer: Katy Hickman
There's a new prosecutor in St. Louis County taking on decades of racial injustice. How will Wesley Bell, buoyed by the political movement after the death of Michael Brown, deliver on his progressive promises?
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The news to know for Monday, February 4th, 2019!
Today, the most-talked about things to know from the Super Bowl and why the game made history. Also, why Democrats demand a governor from their own party step down, and a new report about the economy.
Plus: what it takes to get Beyoncé concert tickets for life, a sort-of sequel to the Groundhog Day movie and a Disney first.
Those stories and many more in less than 10 minutes!
Award-winning broadcast journalist and former TV news reporter Erica Mandy breaks it all down for you.
You can also go to www.theNewsWorthy.com to see story sources and links in the section titled 'Episodes' or see below...
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Sources:
Super Bowl Recap: CBS Sports, NFL/YouTube, CNBC, TechCrunch, Variety, People, The Washington Post, Reuters
CBS Trump Interview: CBS News, USA Today, Reuters
INF Treaty Suspended: CNN, FOX News, CNBC, NYT
Virginia Gov. Controversy: AP, USA Today
U.S. Economy: The Washington Post, NYT
Foxconn Flip 2.0: NYT, FOX Business
Facebook Turns 15: Business Insider, FOX Business
Weekend Box Office: THR, Variety
Beyoncé Giveaway: ET, Health.com, Instagram, Sign Up Here
Disney PRIDE: NBC News
From the 'eye of Sauron' building, to a deserted London town. The designer Hannah Cameron takes a walk back through the buildings that shaped her time living in China's biggest city.
Presenter: James Ward Contributor: Hannah Cameron Producer: Luke Doran
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