Disintegrating Donald and is AI Coming for Us All?

On this week’s episode, Peter will be examining the increasing disintegration of one President Donald J Trump while Sarah will be asking if Artificial Intelligence is finally coming for us all.

And the pair pore over our mailbag to chat about looking after your parents in later life, the legacy of former PM Jim Callaghan, asking what did the 1970s ever do for us? And the joys of the Northumbrian coastline.

On our reading, listening and watch list this week:

• Helena – Evelyn Waugh

• Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton

• 2001: A Space Odyssey – Dir: Stanley Kubrick

• Terminator: Dark Fate – Dir: Tim Miller

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Presenters: Sarah Vine & Peter Hitchens

Producer: Philip Wilding

Editor: Chelsey Moore

Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini