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Back up to: The Essay

1. What Do You Do If You Are a Manically Depressed Robot?

   10/10 Simon Beard, from the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, on AI and Douglas Adams.
2. Kids With Guns

   9/10 Emma Butcher looks at the view of war in the childhood writings of the Bronte family.
3. Speaking Truth to Power in the Past and Present

   8/10 Joanne Paul on satire, flattery and document leaks in the C16 and C17 centuries and now.
4. A War of Words

   6/10 Christopher Bannister on the way a fashion show in Buenos Aires helped win World War II.
5. Doing Nothing

   5/10 Alistair Fraser on teenagers, gangs and filling time.
6. Educating Ida

   4/10 Eleanor Lybeck on the women campaigners satirised in an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan.
7. Does Trusting People Need a Leap of Faith?

   3/10 Tom Simpson on a study of suspicion in a 1950s Italian village and community relations now
8. Art for Health's Sake

   2/10 Daisy Fancourt's research shows the arts can improve health so should we prescribe them?
9. Welling Up: Women and Water in the Middle Ages

   1/10 Hetta Howes looks at male fears + why Margery Kempe was criticised for crying and bleeding