Two upcoming radio shows:
Sunday 16 December 10.00pm UT, BBC Radio 3
RAND – All Your Tomorrows Today
Ken Hollings unravels the origins and achievements of the world’s ultimate think tank. For over 60 years, the RAND (Research and Development) Corporation has been thinking the unthinkable and dreaming of multiple futures for America and the world.
It makes ideas, not machines, but its contribution to the entire information age of satellites, systems analysis, computing and the internet has been crucial. Once labelled a ‘malevolent university’, it has been credited by some with near limitless influence since its beginnings in 1945.
Wednesday 19 December, 8-9pm, Resonance 104.4 FM
Strange Attractor Clear Spot: Head Heritage
Phil Baker and Mark Pilkington talk to Edward Meyer of Ripley’s Believe it or Not about the art of shrinking human heads (tsantsas), as practiced by the Shuar (formerly Jivaro) Indians of Ecuador. Why were the heads made? How was it done? Where can I get one? Can you shrink an entire person? All these questions and more will be answered on tonight’s show.