TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
October 25th-30th highlights: including Dr Marie Cassidy Investigates Ireland’s Last Witch Trial, the Celebrity Traitors finale, and The Handel Scandal
Hannah Fry
Celebrity Traitors: Is James Acaster the worst Traitor in the history of the show?
Television: This tepid second season needs to find a way to raise the temperature in the time remaining
AI Confidential with Hannah Fry: A stark message about the shadowy side of machine intelligence
Television: Absorbing first episode of three-part series explores ominous possibility that AI isn’t so much stealing our jobs, as our souls
Uncharted with Hannah Fry: how numbers, graphs, maths and data are the secret sauce behind some of the biggest scandals
Podcast review: Maths is the hero in every 15ish-minute episode, upending views of many people’s least favourite subject in school
How to turn racists’ genetic arguments against them
Every white supremacist has African ancestry, and every Nazi has Jewish heritage
Podcast dives deep into science and AI behind DeepMind
Web Log: Mathematician Hannah Fry presents eight-part series
Nine of the best TV shows to watch this week
Boy George tracks down his Irish roots in Who Do You Think You Are? while How to Get Rich Quick has money-making tips from businessman Dave Fishwick – creator of Bank of Dave
BBC revives ‘Tomorrow’s World’ as a brand for new programmes
Show introduced us to home computers (1967), ATMs (1969) and mobile phone (1979)
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices