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Samba, strings and the story of HIV

08/06/2017 GMT

Samba, Strings and the Story of HIV

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Samba, strings and the story of HIV and the past and future of social network 4chan

Samba, strings and the story of HIV; the past and future of social network 4chan; and why do we talk to ourselves?

Can medical statistics be transformed  into  music? That was the challenge set by epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani  for composer Tony Haynes. The result was Song of Contagion  to be performed this month by his  Grand Union Orchestra  with steel pans, saxophones and singers telling the story of diseases including  Zika and AIDs.

What Is 4Chan? How an anonymous social network spawned some of the biggest and most recognisable online political movements. We look at the origins, the people who use it and where it’s going. 

And why do we talk to ourselves? Matthew Sweet hears how it can calm us down, help us organise our thoughts, and  in the case of Sarah Outen, who spent four and a half years rowing, cycling and kayaking around the planet,  he hears how it  saved her life on more than one occasion.

(Photo: Detail close up of French Horn musical instrument, part of the Brass family of instruments. Credit: Shutterstock)

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