Daily Mail - Daily Mail Weekend Magazine
Free Thinking
10PM, RADIO 3
One of the reasons Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein remains popular is that it taps into ancient myths about humans creating sentient beings. Here, Fiona Sampson, Daisy Hay and Christopher Frayling join Matthew Sweet to discuss how deep-rooted fears and taboos about creations like Frankenstein’s monster colour our attitudes to the scientists currently working on artificial intelligence.