WhatsApp: We speak to boss, Will Cathcart

WhatsApp: We speak to boss, Will Cathcart

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Screen time ‘rewiring our brains’

We dig through the evidence on the effect of screen time on babies and young children, with the help of some parents and experts. And after hearing our story of a woman who got her voice back with the help of AI, a listener got in touch to tell us his own moving story of hearing ...  Show more

I pretend to be OnlyFans models online

Behind some OnlyFans models making money from chatting to paying subscribers is the unseen human labour people who pretend to be the models and chat on their behalf. We speak to a woman in the Philippines about her jobs as a “chatter’. Also on the programme, scientists using AI t ...  Show more

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