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BBC RADIO 4: When robots steal our jobs

Technology has been replacing manufacturing jobs for years. Is the same about to happen to white-collar work?

Writer/presenter

Analysis, 8 March 2015

30 mins

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BBC RADIO 4: Is it time for the internet to grow up?

Twenty-five years after the invention of the world wide web, online life isn't what we'd hoped it would be

Writer/presenter

Analysis, 13 July 2014

30 mins

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Dancing against prejudice

‘All those theories about Brazil being a country of mixing, that’s a lie’       

Financial Times magazine,  March 28 2014

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Face to face: Cildo Meireles

The acclaimed Brazilian artist is still defying convention            

Financial Times,  28 March 2014

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RADIOLAB: Kill ‘Em All

Using genes to stamp out disease-carrying mosquitoes

Reporter

Radiolab podcast, 25 March 2014

20 mins

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Nearly, but not quite

David Baker set off to conquer the Atlas mountains. He almost succeeded

Four Seasons magazine,  Spring 2014

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Life unplugged

Twenty-one days without the internet 

Info Exame Brazil,  March 2014

(originally published in Portuguese)

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Training to be a divemaster

Six years ago, an underwater panic attack ended David Baker’s love affair with diving. Could he really train to be a divemaster?        

Financial Times magazine,  February 28 2014

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Pilotless planes

Why there'll soon be no need for the man at the front               Wired, December 2013 A black and red twin-propped Jetstream 31, registration G-BWWW, sits at BAE Systems' private airfield at Warton, near Preston. It has seen better days: originally used by a Scottish distillery to ferry

By | December 6th, 2013|Writing|0 Comments

BBC RADIO 4: The sugarman of Brazil

The incredible story of a maverick farmer who is changing the way we produce our food

Reporter

The Food Programme, 11 November 2013

30 mins

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