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Harry Potter. Tim O'Reilly. Tove Jansson.

Tim O'Reilly discusses algorithmic regulation and what 2.0 government involves with Anne McElvoy. Plus exhibitions at the British Library and Dulwich exploring crossover fiction.

Anne McElvoy talks to the tech media man who popularized the terms open source and Web 2.0 and looks at crossover fiction by JK Rowling, Philip Pullman and Tove Jansson with young adult author Aisha Bushby and New Generation Thinkers Hetta Howes and Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough reporting on exhibitions at the British Library and Dulwich.

Tove Jansson (1914-2001) runs at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London from October 25th - January 28th 2018
Harry Potter: A History of Magic runs at the British Library from October 20th to Wednesday 28th February 2018
Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust Vol 1: La Belle Sauvage is out now. He's also written Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling which are being read on ±«Óãtv Radio 4's Book of the Week.
Tim O'Reilly has written What's the Future and Why it's Up to Us.
Aisha Bushby will be talking at the Southbank Centre's Young Adult Literature Weekender on the 28th October and her story Marionette Girl is published in a new collection called A Change is Gonna Come.

Image details: DETAIL - A phoenix rising from the ashes in a 13th-century bestiary (c) British Library

Producer: Debbie Kilbride.

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Tue 24 Oct 2017 22:00

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Role Contributor
Presenter Anne McElvoy
Interviewed Guest Tim O'Reilly
Interviewed Guest Eleanor Barraclough
Interviewed Guest Hetta Howes
Producer Debbie Kilbride

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  • Tue 24 Oct 2017 22:00

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