AI and publishing, terrible record covers, Fred D'Aguiar

Published: Nov. 28, 2023, 8:07 p.m.

Michael Connelly is one of several authors suing the tech company OpenAI for "theft" of his work. Nicola Solomon, outgoing Society of Authors CEO, and Sean Michaels, one of the first novelists to use AI, discuss the challenges and opportunities facing writers on the cusp of a new technological era.

What makes a great piece of terrible album artwork? The Williamson Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead is currently displaying nearly 500 albums which have been collected over a seven year period by Steve Goldman from record fairs and online market places as part of their \u2018Worst Record Covers\u2019 exhibition. Samira is joined by the exhibition curator Niall Hodson and the writer, journalist and author of \u201cThe Sound of Being Human\u201d Jude Rogers.

The most famous event in Los Angeles in 1852 was a horse race. Fortunes were won and lost on Pio Pico's horse Sarco and Jose Sepulveda's Black Swan. Widespread press reports included the horses\u2019 names and the names of their owners - but not the name of the black jockey who won. Apart from his colour, we know nothing about him. Fred D\u2019Aguiar talks to Samira Ahmed about his latest collection of poems, 'For the Unnamed', in which he recovers and re-imagines the story, giving the black jockey the presence today he was denied in his lifetime.