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It's claimed that some computers can now pass the Turing test: convincing people that they are human. What does that mean for our future? Show more

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Security personnel deployed in Assam as millions of people could be left stateless. Show more

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Senior Conservative politician Ken Clarke condemns the decision by the Prime Minister. Show more

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Today's protests mark five years since Beijing ruled out fully democratic elections. Show more

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Filipina-American journalist and author Maria Ressa is one of a few combating fake news. Show more

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Former Premier League players Matt Piper and Scott Davies talk candidly about their battles with addiction and how they hope to help educate others about prevention. Show more

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How do Chinese social media users navigate government censorship? Writer Karoline Kan delves into a world of forbidden words and state-sanctioned influencers. Show more

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There's renewed violence in Hong Kong as police clash with pro-democracy protesters marching in defiance of a ban. Show more

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It's claimed that some computers can now pass the Turing test: convincing people that they are human. What does that mean for our future? Show more

The children sent by their parents to safety in the UK, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus when Nina Simone went to live in Liberia. Show more

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Brazil’s party capital, Rio de Janeiro, is witnessing a killing spree and it’s the police who stand accused of perpetrating much of the bloodshed. Show more

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Brazilian fires in real time monitored from space. Also Digital Planet visits the Rwandan tech scene and explores the possibility of printing a 3D moon base. Show more

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Adults in the US have sex on average about 50 times a year, which has dropped by 20% over the last two decades. It’s happening in the UK, Australia, Finland and Japan too. Show more

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What are the challenges for a free and independent media in India? Show more

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Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture and Mussorgsky's glittering Pictures at an Exhibition performed at the BBC Proms. Show more

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Police fire water cannon and tear gas. Show more

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Afghans' views of US talks with the Taliban; what the Yazidis who went back to Sinjar in Iraq have found; migration through Costa Rica; petanque gets more professional in France Show more

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A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own. Show more

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Does anger fuel Edouard Louis to write his compelling books? HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to the writer who has been seen as a leading voice of the gilets jaunes generation. Show more

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Would more satellites and space stations help us get back to the Moon, and further into the solar system? Show more

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Parliament will not sit for five weeks in the run-up to Brexit. Opponents cry foul. Show more

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India has a poor record when it comes to the balance between the sexes. How can sportswomen there overcome the barriers to success? Devina Gupta and her guests in Delhi discuss. Show more

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Four of Curtis Flowers’ convictions have been overturned because the prosecutor violated legal procedure. And yet the same prosecutor has continued to try the case. Show more

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It’s been a year since Brazil’s National Museum burned down. The building and its precious archive of the past now lie in ruins but amongst the ashes there’s a battle to revive it Show more

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Afghans' views of US talks with the Taliban; what the Yazidis who went back to Sinjar in Iraq have found; migration through Costa Rica; petanque gets more professional in France Show more

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A professor with Ghanaian roots unearths a slave castle’s history — and her own. Show more