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Podcast: Climate chat, bionic woman and a superstitious film

by Hayley Dunning, Gareth Mitchell, Laura Singleton, Colin Smith

In this edition: get the low-down on climate from Lord Stern, meet a popstar obsessed with robots and follow the editor of a dramatic documentary.

The podcast is presented by Gareth Mitchell, a lecturer on Imperial's Science Communication MSc course and the presenter of Click Radio on the BBC World Service, with contributions from our roaming reporters from the Research Communications group.

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News: More neutrino joy and Cities of the Future – Five neutrino experiments and more than 1,300 scientists, including two from Imperial, are honoured in ‘the Oscars for science’, and we report back from the latest Fringe event, looking at the Cities of the Future.

Stern climate conversation – Lord Stern talks climate change, the COP21 meeting and Imperial’s new MSc in Climate Change, Management & Finance.

Fear of 13 – An Imperial alumnus and a film lecturer have put their heart and soul into a movie about a prisoner with a surprising decision – to be executed.

Bionic woman – The Scissor Sisters’ leading lady Ana Matronic meets some robot heroes and talks to Colin Smith about transcending death through technology.