The WIRED Podcast
The award-winning WIRED UK Podcast with James Temperton and the rest of the team. Listen every week for the an informed and entertaining rundown of latest technology, science, business and culture news. New episodes every Friday.
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Did Sweden's Covid-19 experiment work?
Coming up today: Sweden’s pandemic gamble; the deepfake bot being weaponised against women; and Natasha tries to put the ‘interesting’ in negative interest rates
52 min
102
The grim demise of the cinema industry
Coming up today: Natasha investigates the UK’s broken housing algorithm, Matt Burgess reveals how universities are snooping on students and Amit witnesses The grim demise of the cinema industry.
46 min
103
The wild quest to feed the world using your pee
How to recycle your pee, astronaut selection, and the great revival of the home printer
45 min
104
How Italy got on top of Covid-19
Coming up today: Natasha talks to Deliveroo’s struggling ‘heroes’, Amit explains why historians are annoyed at YouTube and Matt Reynolds looks at how Italy got to grips with Covid-19
49 min
105
How to think about risk in a pandemic
Coming up today: Vicki tries to make sense of Trump versus TikTok, Natasha tries to make business liability interesting and Matt Reynolds explains why humans are so bad at understanding risk
46 min
106
Have we found evidence of alien life?
Coming up today: Have we found evidence of alien life? Plus how banks are tackling financial abuse, and holidays in the time of Covid
46 min
107
The living hell of Covid-19 long-haulers
Coming up today: Matt Reynolds meets the coronavirus long-haulers, Matt Burgess tracks the rise and fall of Pret and Amit explains why lie detectors are creeping into British policing.
55 min
108
Coronavirus shows why we need a four-day workin...
Natasha explains the rise of the four-day working week, Matt Burgess on the return of ID cards and Matt Reynolds on what the animal kingdom can teach us about social distancing.
48 min
109
Office lifts are a coronavirus logistics nightmare
Natasha looks at two of the big problems with people returning to offices, Matt Reynolds examines how artificial snow is being used to save a glacier and Matt Burgess explores the troubling rise of deepfake pornography videos
54 min
110
England’s exam algorithm shambles
Coming up today: Matt Burgess picks over the fallout from the A-level algorithm debacle, Matt Reynolds explains how breast milk is being grown in the lab Natasha meets the digital nomads swapping office life for paradise
51 min
111
How your boss is spying on you
Coming up today: exam chaos, how your boss is spying on you and the great QR code revival
48 min
112
Where Zoom goes next
Coming up today: Vicki takes a look at the wild rise of Zoom, Amit fills up on discount fast food and Natasha explains the hygiene theatre coming to a workplace near you soon
52 min
113
These coronavirus vaccines are the closest to b...
Coming up today: Matt Burgess advises on how to up your lockdown running game, I examine the latest covid vaccine progress, and Matt Reynolds tackles the UK’s big cat mystery
50 min
114
We’re stuck in a lockdown work from home purgatory
Coming up today: Matt Burgess on Covid-19 hackers, Amit looks at how musicians are taking on Spotify (again) and Natasha explains why we’re all stuck in a work from home purgatory.
48 min
115
Is coronavirus airborne?
Coming up today: Matt Reynolds explains how coronavirus may actually be airborne, Matt Burgess looks at a grim future for Huawei and Vicki tells us all to wear face masks
55 min
116
The failure of antibody tests
Matt delves into the failed promise of antibody tests, Amit explains how to eat lots of hot dogs and Vicki reminds us all what a train is
50 min
117
Has Covid-19 created more plastic waste?
Coming up today: the plight of museums, the surge in plastic and why cinemas are engaged in an elaborate game of post-lockdown chicken
48 min
118
Why mask shaming is a big deal
Coming up today: the rise of mask shaming, the hunt for coronavirus heads to the sewers and how climbing became the next big competitive sport
48 min
119
The era of the coronavirus super-spreader
Coming up today: coronavirus super-spreaders, how Beijing crushed a spike in cases and the death of the great British office sandwich
46 min
120
DuckDuckGo takes on Google
Coming up today: ducks, eels and simulated shouting.
53 min
121
How Sweden bungled its coronavirus response
Sweden's coronavirus response, anti-vaxxers and the pandemic collide and we explain how pubs can reopen safely
50 min
122
Your weird coronavirus summer holidays
The case for infecting healthy people with coronavirus, a big week for SpaceX and we explain how weird your summer holidays are going to be.
57 min
123
How coronavirus attacks your body
What we now know about how coronavirus attacks your body, how the school shutdown will affect kids for years and why we’re entering the golden era of nepotism
44 min
124
The WIRED podcast pub quiz
Coming up today: the first ever WIRED podcast pub quiz. Fun not guaranteed.
60 min
125
The big coronavirus contact tracing app debate
Coming up today: coronavirus treatments, we dig deeper into contact tracing apps and look at the surprising science of playing sport behind closed doors
52 min