Fans aim to help Leicester Comedy Festival improve disabled access
Alice Evans and Lucy Wood Alice Evans (l) and Lucy Wood host a disability podcast Two women with disabilities are working with a comedy festival organiser to make it more accessible after finding a show had no wheelchair access. Alice Evans and Lucy Wood booked to see a Leicester Comedy Festival gig to mark their […]
Young V&A to open in summer after £13m development
Picture Plane Ltd The museum will have three permanent galleries – Imagine, Play and Design A museum dedicated to children and young people will reopen this summer after a £13m redevelopment. Formerly the V&A Museum of Childhood, the Young V&A will relaunch on 1 July after being closed for three years. The site in Bethnal […]
The food that could last 2,000 years
Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Should the human population disappear tomorrow, what might future archaeologists find of the food we eat? And, most importantly, would any of it still be edible? On 8 September 1941, Nazi forces surrounded Leningrad from the west and south, and through Finland to the north. A thin strip of land […]
Hellblade Psychosis Story Mirrored Mine
This is a full transcript of Hellblade Psychosis Story Mirrored Mine presented by Beth Rose with Kathleen Hawkins and Niamh Hughes first broadcast on 20 April 2018. BETH – Hi, it’s Beth here from the BBC Ouch team. We’ve got a great podcast coming up for you today. It’s about psychosis and the game Hellblade: […]
The remarkable power of the prickly pear
Getty Images The benefit of using nopal plant matter for creating biofuel is that it is grown for other uses, helping to make efficient use of land and resources (Credit: Getty Images) A stalwart of the Mexican landscape is finding a second life powering up buildings in the desert, and it is proving to be […]
Chelsea v Barcelona in Women’s Champions League final: All you need to know about Barca
Of 25 players on Barcelona’s roster, just five are not Spanish and from those 20, nine are graduates of the club’s famed La Masia academy. The Barcelona style of play is instilled throughout this squad with key players drawing influence from the Pep Guardiola era at the Nou Camp, consisting of players like Andres Iniesta, […]
Amazon gets closer to getting Alexa everywhere
Web Summit Rohit Prasad is responsible for the machine learning capabilities that power Alexa Rohit Prasad has 17 smart speakers in his home powered by Amazon’s smart assistant. “I test my own technology – with all of them being called Alexa, I see which one is waking up and whether it is the right device,” […]
Has coronavirus helped the environment?
Could Covid-19 be a game changer for the environment? We know that carbon emissions have sharply fallen during lockdown. But will all these changes actually be good for the environment in the long run? There’s clear water in the Venice canals, blue skies over Delhi and wild animals are roaming boldly in locked-down cities. The […]
Women in Football calls for ‘change, starting at the top’ of the game to promote inclusivity
Football has to become fully gender inclusive and “change, starting at the top” says the chief executive of Women in Football (WIF), Yvonne Harrison. The organisation has called on Fifa and national associations to introduce six measures. They include 30% of the game’s decision makers to be female and systems to ensure that players’ views […]
Australia to police tech giants’ algorithms
Getty Images The tech giants have recently faced increased pressure from regulators Australian regulators plan to launch the world’s first office dedicated to scrutinising algorithms used by tech giants such as Facebook and Google. The idea is to reveal how these companies match adverts to users. A new, special branch of the Australian Competition and […]