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Karlin's Web Summit Review / City Soundscapes


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Technology reporter Karlin Lillington joins Hugh and Laurence for a look back at Web Summit 2015 in an attempt to find middle ground between the cynics and Paddy Cosgrove-bashers on one hand and the everything-is-awesome boosterism on the other.
In part two Dr Linda O'Keeffe of Lancaster University has studied the effect of sound on life in our shared spaces. The study has produced some surprising insights, among them the reason Smithfield Square is a teenage wasteland.
Plus, Laurence has been reading about a mean trick our reptilian brain plays on us at our most vulnerable moment - after we've been dumped.
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