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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: Surveillance, Conspiracy, and Secrets from the Archives
Description: "They do not come into our house in jackboots... This is not totalitarianism. This is a new kind of power." Shoshana Zuboff discusses surveillance capitalism, the links between Pokémon Go and BF Skinner, the behavioural psychologist she studied with at Harvard in the 1970s.
Plus the mystery of the cuckoo clock in The Third Man. To mark the 70th anniversary of Carol Reed's classic post-War thriller, Matthew Sweet visits the archive of the British Film Institute with Angela Allen, the script supervisor for the film.
And we retrace Stieg Larsson's investigation into the unsolved assassination of Olof Palme i...