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Radio 4,30 Sep 2026,42 mins

Man City verdict, Dead Internet Theory, The Art of Casting

The Media Show

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Manchester City arranged "sham contracts" with a number of commercial partners as part of a scheme to disguise secret funding of more than 拢830m, the Premier League says. We discuss how the media was involved in reporting the story over many years with 麻豆社 Sport's Laura Scott; Der Spiegel journalist Christoph Winterbach; Nick Harris from Sporting Intelligence and Sky鈥檚 sports correspondent Rob Harris. New research from Stanford University suggests a significant share of newly created websites may now be produced, at least in part, by artificial intelligence. We hear from one of the study's lead researchers, Maty Boh谩膷ek, alongside technology writer Timandra Harkness, about the scale of AI-generated content online and what it means for the future of the web. Celebrity Traitors and Strictly Come Dancing are back on our screens. But what goes into casting the stars who make these formats a success? Celebrity talent executive Stef Aleksander takes us behind the scenes of one of television's most important and least visible jobs.

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