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    What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?

    10/10Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, on AI and Douglas Adams.

    Kids With Guns

    9/10Emma Butcher looks at the view of war in the childhood writings of the Bronte family.

    Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present

    8/10Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and now.

    A War of Words

    6/10Christopher Bannister on the way a fashion show in Buenos Aires helped win World War II.

    Doing Nothing

    5/10Alistair Fraser on teenagers, gangs and filling time.

    Educating Ida

    4/10Eleanor Lybeck on the women campaigners satirised in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.

    Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?

    3/10Tom Simpson on a study of suspicion in a 1950s Italian village and community relations now

    Art for Health's Sake

    2/10Daisy Fancourt's research shows the arts can improve health so should we prescribe them?

    Welling Up: Women and Water in the Middle Ages

    1/10Hetta Howes looks at male fears + why Margery Kempe was criticised for crying and bleeding