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Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world

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The Digital Human: Series 13

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Series 13

BBC Radio 4 - The Digital Human, Series 13, Resist

Aleks Krotoski looks at how our online world can be a portal to a better physical world.

Aleks Krotoski explores how what we do online can give us a glimpse of a better world and how we repurpose the tools we have around us to make it a reality.

There's nothing more human that adapting a tool to make your life better, it's the rationale behind every innovation. Aleks Krotoski explores how our digital tools can be reinvented in powerful ways by individuals seeking a better life. Whether it's how smuggled USB sticks filled with content from the outside world inspire North Koreans to defect to the south, or the way a single photo of woman running with her hair flowing inspires a campaign against compulsory Islamic dress in Iran. What ties these stories together is hope. And it's the hope that the world can be made better that makes us look to the tools we have and how they might be re-purposed to make that a reality.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Aleks Krotoski explores life in the digital age.

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