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Sunday with Steven Rainey: Elon Musk's computerised brain, The Iron Claw, the UK Covid Inquiry, and Mickybo and Me

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04/02/2024

Elon Musk's computerised brain, The Iron Claw, the UK Covid Inquiry, and Mickybo and Me

BBC Radio Ulster - Sunday with Steven Rainey, Elon Musk's computerised brain, The Iron Claw, the UK Covid Inquiry, and Mickybo and Me

As Elon Musk implants a chip into a human brain, will our minds still be ours?

As Elon Musk implants a chip into a human brain, will our minds still be ours? And The Iron Claw brings the 'curse' of the Von Erich family to the cinema screen.

As Elon Musk announces that his Neuralink company has installed a wireless computer chip into a human brain, allowing the user to operate a computer with their thoughts, is this the next step in human evolution? Or are our brains about to be the latest space for advertising to be sold to? 

Also, The Iron Claw is the new movie from filmmaker Sean Durkin, which brings the story of the Von Erich family to the screen. An American wrestling dynasty, they grappled out of the ring with what came to be known as 'The Curse', after five of the six Von Erich brothers died young.

Closer to home, The Strand Arts Centre in Belfast is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Mickybo and Me, a classic coming of age film telling the tale of two young friends from different backgrounds who come together over a love of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, against a backdrop of The Troubles in the 1970s. Steven hears from writer and director Terry Loane about revisiting the film two decades later.

And as the UK Covid Inquiry comes to Northern Ireland with their Every Story Matters project, we'll be hearing how every person's account of the pandemic is important, not just the politicians in charge at the time.

All that plus the best of the Sunday papers with commentator Alex Kane and comedian and science educator Emer Maguire.

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