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Wales Online
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis to host Audible comedy podcast
Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis to host Audible comedy podcast 'Future Tense with Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis' will be available from June 5 and will see the pessimistic 'The IT Crowd' star and the ever cheerful 'Star Wars' actor Richard Ayoade (Image: BBC ) Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis are teaming up for an Audible comedy podcast. 'Future Tense with Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis' will be available from June 5 and will see the pessimistic 'The IT Crowd' star and the ever cheerful 'Star Wars' actor – who have a shared love of past roles in sci-fi – venture beneath Audible HQ to the 'Future Tense lab', fully equipped to interrogate the future we are being told to look forward to. Over the course of six episodes, the pair will discuss the downsides of celebrating your 150th birthday and consider whether human civilisation peaked with the penny-farthing. Richard and Warwick will deliver equal parts naive enthusiasm and sharp scepticism as they tackle the key questions facing our collective future. With assistance from comedic performer and popular science writer Helen Keen and expert guests providing actual facts, listeners will be taken on a hilarious yet informative journey – from robots to relationships – to unravel a future that nobody has ordered, but everybody will receive. Article continues below Warwick said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to have worked with Richard Ayoade on Audible's brilliant new podcast series, 'Future Tense'. His brilliantly dry wit was the perfect counterpoint to my optimism and made for a fun, dynamic collaboration, and I learned a lot along the way too." Richard added: "When I was first asked about this podcast I thought it was a bad idea, but then maybe it could be ok. And now we've made that bad or maybe ok idea a reality. I hope you listen and agree." Meanwhile, Warwick previously hosted the ITV afternoon quiz show 'Tenable' and has urged fans to rally together to get the programme back on screens after it was axed last year. Article continues below The 55-year-old actor said: "Presenting 'Tenable' was one of my favourite things to do. "I loved the show. People tell me they still watch old episodes now and enjoy it. I feel like I should video people on my phone when they say, 'We miss Tenable', and then send them to ITV!" 'Future Tense with Richard Ayoade and Warwick Davis', an Audible Original, will be exclusively available from June 5th 2025 at Membership may be required.
Indian Express
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
Indian-origin British academic Nitasha Kaul claims her OCI status cancelled, says punishment for questioning Modi govt's ‘anti-democratic policies'
Indian-origin academic and author Nitasha Kaul, who teaches at the University of Westminster in London, said Sunday that her Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) status has been cancelled for her work on the government's 'anti-minority and anti-democratic policies'. Sharing a snapshot of the official letter from the government on X, she said, 'A bad faith, vindictive, cruel example of #TNR (transnational repression) punishing me for scholarly work on anti-minority and anti-democratic policies of #Modi rule.' The picture she shared also indicates that the government had noted her 'indulging in anti-India activities, motivated by malice and complete disregard for facts or history'. 'Through your numerous inimical writings, speeches and journalistic activities at various international forums and on social media platforms, you regularly target India and its institutions on the matters of India's sovereignty,' the document purportedly added. IMPORTANT NOTE – I received a cancellation of my #OCI (Overseas Citizenship of #India) *today* after arriving home. A bad faith, vindictive, cruel example of #TNR (transnational repression) punishing me for scholarly work on anti-minority & anti-democratic policies of #Modi rule. — Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD (@NitashaKaul) May 18, 2025 In February last year, Kaul was denied entry into India after she arrived at the invitation of the Karnataka government to speak about 'democratic and constitutional values' at an event. She then claimed she was deported to London, after being held in detention for 24 hours 'under direct cctv w restricted movement, a narrow area to lie down and no easy access to food and water'. She was supposed to speak at a conference titled 'The Constitution and Unity of India' in Bengaluru on February 24-25, 2024. Born in Gorakhpur, the British-Indian professor is the director of the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) at Westminster's School of Social Sciences. She has a BA Honours in Economics from SRCC, University of Delhi, a Master's in Economics specialising in Public Policy, and a joint PhD in Economics and Philosophy from the University of Hull, UK, as per her CV linked to her X profile. She has also authored multiple books, including Residue, Future Tense, and Imagining Economics Otherwise. Both Residue and Future Tense deal with the themes of 'identity, trauma and displacement' in Kashmir. Residue, her debut novel, was one of five works from Asia to be shortlisted for the 2009 Man Asian Literary Prize. —-
South China Morning Post
12-03-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
This artist put audiences at the centre of her digital creations
'Operating at the intersection of art and technology ' is a near-ubiquitous phrase, often trotted out to define the work of digital artists . Ambiguous and overused, yes, but it's also where South Korean media artist Inhwa Yeom draws the most freedom. Advertisement 'I don't think you should have to choose between learning one or the other,' says Yeom. 'They're both just forms of expression.' For Yeom, 'new' and 'old' are equally fraught. 'I don't even like to call myself a 'new' media artist,' she says. 'I don't think there should be a dichotomy between old or new media – technology changes every day.' In addition to her art practice, Yeom is a researcher and the founder of BiOVE, a biotech and bioart start-up, where she aims to increase accessibility in medical, rehabilitative, therapeutic and creative-learning experiences through extended reality, or XR, and artificial intelligence-powered interactive systems. 'Future Tense', an exhibition at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, explores lesser-known stories of the city's cultural heritage, reimagined in the future. Photo: Handout Yeom is in Hong Kong for 'Future Tense', an exhibition that opened at the Hong Kong Arts Centre on March 1. The show explores lesser-known stories of Hong Kong's cultural heritage reimagined in the future, with the added effects of social shifts, climate change and urban development. Advertisement 'The genesis of this project came from how we make up or adapt these stories based on our memories,' says exhibition director Ray LC. 'The exhibition is not about technology. It's about the nature of how we preserve cultural heritage and stories. We use technology to express how we reimagine the future, as you'll see in Inhwa's work – she uses imagery to speculate.'
South China Morning Post
09-03-2025
- Science
- South China Morning Post
This week in PostMag: 5 women leading the way in STEM, a woman who started a brewery at 18, and a trip to Luang Prabang in Laos
I am laughably bad at maths. I like to think of it as an endearing quality – a framing only possible because I live in an era of calculators on mobile phones. And to my credit, once you put letters in there, shockingly I improve. Calculus and trigonometry? I could scrape by in high school. Splitting a bill at the end of dinner? Don't look at me. Advertisement So, there's no one I'm more in awe of than women in mathematics, science and related disciplines, and the topic immediately sprang to mind when we were discussing how to mark International Women's Day in an editorial meeting a few months back. But, to be honest, we were conflicted about the idea on the whole. International Women's Day is somewhat of a Hallmark holiday – cringeworthy promotions abound, the critical issues get overlooked and the descent is quick into 'rah rah, girl power' territory. We wanted to make sure we championed the brilliant women innovating in their fields, but we also didn't want to shy away from discussing the hard questions, the challenges and the solutions. After the cover shoot, we brought our five cover stars – Florence Chan, Angela Wu, Wendy Lam, Gina Jiang and Megan Lam – together for a round-table discussion of women in STEM, which you can read in its edited and condensed form. It ended up being one of the most provocative and enjoyable Friday afternoons I've had in a long while. The work they are doing is fascinating and while we didn't solve the world's problems in a single conversation, I learned so much from their insights and approaches. A sincere thanks to Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, which supported this editorial feature. Anushka Purohit, of Breer, the food upcycling start-up that turns leftover bread into beer, shares about being a woman founder in a male-dominated industry. Who would have guessed that about beer brewing? And there was the challenge of youth, too. Purohit was 18 when she started the company five years ago. One point our cover stars touched on in conversation is that science and technology shouldn't be so siloed from art and humanities. It ought to be STEAM not STEM, they laughed. Artists, for their part, haven't shied away from using technology. Aaina Bhargava talks to South Korean artist Inhwa Yeom, who uses artificial intelligence as a foundational element of her practice. She's showing as part of 'Future Tense', an exhibition that explores Hong Kong's cultural heritage reimagined in the future. Advertisement That reimagining is, of course, all speculative. How can we actually predict what something will look like in the future? Ron Gluckman first visited Luang Prabang in the early 1990s and could he have imagined what it would look like now? He traces the city's evolution as a destination over 30 years. One for the bucket list, especially with its 'Sundance of Southeast Asia' film festival.
