This episode features the first half of our interview with psychiatrist, neuroscientist, literary scholar and author of The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist. We’ve decide to put this out following the interview with AI researcher Peter Flach since it touches on many of the same issues, albeit from a very different perspective.

Beyond that, it's a wide ranging interview, reflecting Iain's exceptionally broad frame of reference, taking in the evolution of the human brain, art, music, modernism, society, politics and spirituality. The second half of the interview will be released on Monday 28th April.

Written and presented by Julian Leeks Produced by Sound World

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Music: Entwined by Julian Leeks. Listen on Apple Music or Spotify

In The Steps of Apollo by Julian Leeks (performed by Zelkova String Quartet). Listen here.

Beehive by Julian Leeks (Note Performer demo version recorded for our sponsors)

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This is another of our bonus episodes featuring one of the full length interviews that we recorded for the main strand of A land without music?.

Following on from our last episode in which our guests discussed various aspects of AI and technology, we’re talking to Prof. Peter Flach. For anyone trying to make sense of AI, how it works and what it might mean for us to, Peter is someone to listen to. Professor of artificial intelligence and an expert in machine learning, Peter is a knowledgable and measured voice in a field often characterised by hyperbole and hysteria.

Written and presented by Julian Leeks Produced by Sound World

Music: Trombone Phrases by Nico Muhly. Listen on Apple Music or Spotify

In The Steps of Apollo by Julian Leeks (performed by Zelkova String Quartet). Listen here.

Beehive by Julian Leeks (Note Performer demo version recorded for our sponsors)

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What are the dangers posed by AI and what opportunities does it bring?

What does it mean for music and for how we value, understand and experience creativity?

Leading AI researcher Prof. Peter Flach and psychiatrist, neuroscientist and author Dr. Iain McGilchrist shed light on this complex and hugely consequential subject.

Written and presented by Julian Leeks Produced by Sound World

Music: Trombone Phrases by Nico Muhly. Listen on Apple Music or Spotify

In The Steps of Apollo by Julian Leeks (performed by Zelkova String Quartet). Listen here.

Beehive by Julian Leeks (Note Performer demo version recorded for our sponsors)

To get in touch with Sound World please email info@sound-world.org or leave a post on out Facebook page SoundWorldUK.

For more info about Sound World visit sound-world.org