In this episode of Tomorrow is the Question, Fully Human’s Dr Elly Hanson talks to Clover Hogan, a courageous leader in the climate movement and founder of Force of Nature – a not for profit that seeks to empower young people and raise their voices on climate. You can read the full transcript for this episode on fullyhuman.org.uk

Children’s opportunities for free play have been declining for decades. How have we got here? Why does it matter? What hope for the future of play? In this episode of Tomorrow is the Question, Jono Baggaley and Dr Elly Hanson chat to Tim Gill, global expert in play, risk and spatial freedoms to explore the current state of children's play.

Could James Bond be a useful source of teaching about sex, relationships, gender norms and misogyny? In this episode of Tomorrow is the Question, Jono Baggaley chats to Dr Ian Kinane, Editor of the International Journal of James Bond Studies, Dr Kathy Weston, founder of Tooled Up Education and Fully Human's Dr Elly Hanson to explore Bond as a problematic symbol: a loaded figure of sex and violence and potent store of teaching material for teenagers. In this episode, we uncover a surprisingly rich seam of material for exploring sex, relationships, misogyny, gender norms and more with young people. We could call it teaching by bad example — and because of this I started a little sceptical — but this conversation won me over. James Bond has been described as 'an icon of adventure, a guru of male style and an emblem of glamour’ but he is also ‘a champion of consumerism’ and a ‘loaded figure of sex and violence’. He is a character almost all of us will have encountered in some form; his films are amongst the few laden with sex and violence that families sit down together to watch at Christmas. Everyone from teenagers to grandparents will have an opinion on James Bond — and that's what makes him so unique in British popular culture and useful for teaching.   Fully Human's Dr Elly Hanson has been working with Dr Ian Kinane, Bond expert and Editor of the International Journal of James Bond Studies, and Dr Kathy Weston, founder of Tooled Up Education, to develop some educational resources which use Bond as source material. We got together to discuss the work. It's a thought provoking conversation in which we explore Bond as symbol of masculinity and Britishness, his problematic approach to sex and relationships and how on earth he manages to fight bad guys with a blood alcohol level which would kill a man twice his size. Finally, of course, we answer the only question which really matters – who is the next Bond? Tune in to find out.

What's actually happening in the manosphere? How is it affecting children and young people? And how might we respond? In this episode of Tomorrow is the Question, the Fully Human podcast, Jono Baggaley chats to Professor Harriet Over and Dr David Zendle from the University of York and Fully Human's own Dr Elly Hanson to explore their deep research into these questions. “When it comes to the manosphere, this naming of it might hide a lot of complexity. We talk about it through a word that is just the most perfect harmonious shape, a unity. Actually, we don’t know if it’s a unity at all." Dr David Zendle In this episode, we unpack one of the most challenging aspects of contemporary online culture — the marketing of misogyny by online influencers. Online misogyny and the manosphere have been a considerable focus in conversations about online harms against children and young people. And misogynistic influencers and messages are now hugely prevalent in many young people’s online worlds. But it can feel a bit ill defined, a sort of amorphous threat to those of us not regularly exposed to the videos, podcasts and narratives coming from these influencers. So I was delighted to have a Fully Human conversation with three people doing deep research on what’s actually happening: Professor Harriet Over and Dr David Zendle from the University of York, and Fully Human’s own Dr Elly Hanson. It’s a fascinating conversation in which they unpack the ecosystem of influencers and the interaction of adolescent development, gender norms, false narratives and profit-seeking algorithms — all of which seem to be causing very real harm. We explore the limits of our current understanding of the problem and new and exciting methods for getting to the bottom of what’s actually happening online.

What happens when technology starts talking to us? When objects in our homes take on human voices and engage us in conversation? Not the magic of talking teapots or conversational candlesticks but the increasingly mundane reality of smart speakers and Voice Assistants. Who or what do we think we’re talking to? Who is listening and for what purposes? It’s ten years since the first smart speaker, the Amazon Echo, entered our homes. Now over 50% of households own at least one smart speaker. This means that millions of children and young people are using these technologies, and their experience of technology itself is being shaped to some extent by the fact that technology can talk. So what does it mean if children grow up with machines they can have meaningful conversations with? What will they share with them? Will they see them as friend or confidante, assistant or annoyance? Human? Animal? Ghost? Lewis Heriz, audiovisual artist, animator and creative lead for Fully Human, has been considering the subject of artificial intelligence, and AI ethics, for some time and as an animator brings a unique perspective to the conversation about AI and voice, as seen in his award winning film So Long We Dreamt of This. We teamed up to explore the questions posed by smart speakers and voice assistants through an ongoing project called 'Speaking Machines'. We've been designing and running workshops with young people to find out what they think and feel about these technologies and will be digging deeper into this over the coming year. We spoke about the project, animation, conversational AI and our hopes for the future for the launch of Tomorrow is the Question, our new Fully Human podcast.