Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, women on stage, Wilkie Collins, Artificial Intelligence

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Matthew Sweet reviews a new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford called 'Flesh and Bone', which brings together 20 works by Francis Bacon and 40 by Henry Moore, exploring the influences and experiences they shared. Actor Diana Quick, playwright Jessica Swale and theatre critic Susannah Clapp discuss the way the changing role of women has been reflected in the theatre over the last one hundred years. In the field of artificial intelligence, 50 years of trying to evolve theories of human behaviour and language in order to create intelligent computers have been rendered redundant by simply crunching vast amounts of data. It is now easier, and cheaper, to predict than to explain - and the world, our world, is changing as a result. Professor Nello Cristianini explains to Matthew why imagining Hal was wrong and The Prisoner may have been right. And the founding father of Victorian sensation-fiction, Wilkie Collins, gets a new biography. Author Andrew Lycett talks to Matthew about a man whose life, like his writing, was full of secrets and dedicated to exploring reality as feeling. All on Night Waves this evening on Radio 3.