King's of Curiosity with Gillian Tett

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• Quantum Computing in the Intellectual Kitchen with David Arvidsson Shukur

  April 14, 2026 · 52 min

  You're about to enter a discipline that genuinely has to account for time-travel in its computations. Welcome to the wonderful, if initially bewildering, world of quantum computing. Gillian's guide through the hypothetical yeses, nos and…

• Tech Beyond Bros with Alice Hutchings and Jude Browne

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  Each day brings new stories about the possibilities and the threats of AI and the dominance of Silicon Valley. But what if there were other voices and points of view shaping these technologies and their influence on the world? How…

• Building Bridges across the Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan and Carrie Humphrey

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  This week we welcome historian Peter Frankopan and anthropologist Professor Dame Caroline Humphrey to the show. Both work on very different aspects of areas across Asia now described as the Silk Roads; Peter has written a bestselling…

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