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September 28, 2025

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00:00Open/ Remembering bass legend Danny Thompson, founding member of Pentangle and worked with John Martyn, Kate Bush, Nick Drake, Peter Gabriel, Talk Talk, and countless others
01:32'Sally Go Round The Roses' by Pentangle
05:09News of AI: Lionsgate is struggling to make AI movies with Runway; AI slop; Neon shuts down after privacy breach; Judge approves $1.5B copyright settlement between Anthropic and authors; Bain says AI coding hype is overblown
15:27Smart World: Scientists trick self-driving car with mirrors
18:38'A self writing Sonnet for LIDAR' by Harry Shearer
19:37'Dealer' by John Martyn
23:27News of the Warm: The average size of trees in the Amazon has increased as carbon dioxide levels rise
25:46Land of 4,000 Princes: Florida retiree banned from leaving Saudi Arabia after posting critical tweets about crown prince
27:22News of the Olympic Movement: Olympic sports may need a new calendar because of climate change
31:43Trump this week: Speech to the UN
36:03'Hatmosphere' by Danny Thompson
38:54Donald Trump's Truth Social Audio: UN speech, immigration, Jimmy Kimmel
41:57The Apologies of the Week: Quincy Mayor Tom Koch, Scottish Prison Service, Former Mexico immigration chief, New Brunswick's health authority, Sarah Ferguson, Fayette County superintendent Patterson
50:07News of the Atom: After major shrimp recalls, FDA finds radioactive contamination in Indonesian spices; Power still out at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after three days; Long after the blasts, Polynesia still lives with the legacy of France's nuclear weapons testing
54:28'Idle Monday' by Danny Thompson /Close

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