Welcome to the launch series of The See Through News Podcast. Unlike our sibling podcast, The Truth Lies In Bedtime Stories from See Through News, which fictionalises true stories and is entirely true, largely, The See Through News podcast is entirely true, full stop. Beyond cleaving to fact, and eschewing fiction, there’s no fixed format. It could…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 10, What Happened Next?, we find out if any of the efforts described in the first 9 episodes were worth all the hassle… The original article on which this episode is based, See Through Carbon Competitio…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 9, Did It Work?, we find out if Jayeola and Daniels’ heroic efforts came to anything, and whether their winning projects might ever lead to any Global South carbon reduction… The original article on whi…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 8, Tick Tock, the Competition’s organisers and donor sweat it out, to see if the four winners can meet the ridiculous deadline, and make use of the remarkable prize fund… The original article on which t…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 7, Golden Needles, Robert, Tom and Renuka’s hastily-assembled competition, hoping to find Global South candidates capable of using cutting-edge supercomputing, yields unexpected results… The original ar…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 6, Rules, Referees & Global South Haystacks, Robert and Renuka race against time to come up with a way of offering cutting-edge technology to people in the Global South who’d never otherwise have access…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 5, An Unusual Introduction, the critical role of a Dutch sailor floating in the mid-Atlantic, in possession of a peculiarly specific range of diverse interests, is revealed… The original article on whic…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 4, Best Christmas Present Wrapping Ever, Robert works out what on earth to do with half a million dollars of supercomputing, with a fast approaching sell-by date… The original article on which this epis…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 3, A Surprise Donation, Tom calls Robert just before Christmas, offering a rather extraordinary gift… The original article on which this episode is based, Our First Donation -Half a Million Dollars wort…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 2, AI’s Dirty Secret, journalist-turned-climate-activist Robert learns why AI’s slow burn from obscurity to exploding into public consciousness in the form of ChatGPT, comes with a disastrous carbon pri…

AI’s Dirty Secret, or How To Spend Half A Million Dollars of Supercomputing, tells the true story of the See Through Carbon Competition. In Episode 1, Monkeys Climbing Trees, we meet two oddball flatmates studying obscure things in the mid-80s, and discover how, forty decades later, one of them discovers a dirty secret about one of the things, whic…

In Episode 7, All Is Revealed, Largely George reflects on the nature of truth and lies, reviews everything we've learned about his children, finally revealing the truth, largely. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1: The Truth Revealed Episode 2: Overheard Episode 3: An Illuminating Story Episode 4: Further Developments …

In Episode 6, Behind The Words, George strays into the realm of music in his ongoing attempt to shed light on the difference between truth and lies when it comes to humans and storytelling. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1: The Truth Revealed Episode 2: Overheard Episode 3: An Illuminating Story Episode 4: Further De…

In Episode 5, Further Clarifications, George seeks to render turbid waters limpid via a family story about a hirsute canine. Next: Episode 6: Behind The Words Narration and series theme music by George Hinchliffe Produced & mixed by SternWriter Podcast sting by Samuel Wain If you enjoyed this series, why not try: Series 1: The Story of Ganbaatar · …

In Episode 4, Further Developments, George spills the beans about all his other children. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1: The Truth Revealed Episode 2: Overheard Episode 3: An Illuminating Story Episode 4: Further Developments Episode 5: Further Clarifications Episode 6: Behind The Words Narration and series theme …

George introduces himself, then red-trousered Rupert, then his children, then a discursive exploration of the nature of truth and lies. Episode 1: The Truth Revealed Episode 2: Overheard Episode 3: An Illuminating Story Episode 4: Further Developments Episode 5: Further Clarifications Episode 6: Behind The Words Episode 7: All Is Revealed, Largely …

In Episode 3, An Illuminating Story, George expands on his theme with his take on a thought experiment involving truth and lies. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1: The Truth Revealed Episode 2: Overheard Episode 3: An Illuminating Story Episode 4: Further Developments Episode 5: Further Clarifications Episode 6: Behin…

In Episode 2, Overheard, George takes a different angle on his conversation with red-trousered Rupert, in which two strangers bond by discussing their children... Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1: The Truth Revealed Episode 2: Overheard Episode 3: An Illuminating Story Episode 4: Further Developments Episode 5: Furth…

In Episode 1, we're introduced to George, who introduces us to Rupert, to whom he then introduces to his children, Marcus & Jemima... Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1: The Truth Revealed Episode 2: Overheard Episode 3: An Illuminating Story Episode 4: Further Developments Episode 5: Further Clarifications Episode 6: …

This omnibus edition features all 10 Episodes of his largely entirely true sumo suspense thriller, set in 1993 Japan. Like all stories, it·s best to start at the beginning: Episode 1 · Japan in 1993 Episode 2 · Seduced by Sumo Episode 3 · Sumo Fan Episode 4 · My Favourite Japan Story Episode 5 · Can Gaijin Have Hinkaku? Episode 6 · How Chad Became …

In Episode 10, our novice Ass Prod narrator learns of his fate. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1 - Japan in 1993 Episode 2 - Seduced by Sumo Episode 3 - Sumo Fan Episode 4 - My Favourite Japan Story Episode 5 - Can Gaijin Have Hinkaku? Episode 6 - How Chad Became Akebono Episode 8 - A Winter Jacket Episode 9 - Inside…

In Episode 9, our half-naive, half-knowledgable novice Ass Prod gets what he wants - or does he? Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1 - Japan in 1993 Episode 2 - Seduced by Sumo Episode 3 - Sumo Fan Episode 4 - My Favourite Japan Story Episode 5 - Can Gaijin Have Hinkaku? Episode 6 - How Chad Became Akebono Episode 7 - W…

In Episode 8, we learn of the unusual contents of our Ass Prods jacket, and how they were meant to be deployed. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1 - Japan in 1993 Episode 2 - Seduced by Sumo Episode 3 - Sumo Fan Episode 4 - My Favourite Japan Story Episode 5 - Can Gaijin Have Hinkaku? Episode 6 - How Chad Became Akebon…

In Episode 7, Japan is glued to its TV screens, as sumo's Yokozuna Deliberation Committee delivers its hinkaku-pondering verdict, as Akebono's career hangs in the balance... Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1 - Japan in 1993 Episode 2 - Seduced by Sumo Episode 3 - Sumo Fan Episode 4 - My Favourite Japan Story Episode 5…

In Episode 6, we crane our necks to meet a pivotal character in this story - massive, really. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1 - Japan in 1993 Episode 2 - Seduced by Sumo Episode 3 - Sumo Fan Episode 4 - My Favourite Japan Story Episode 5 - Can Gaijin Have Hinkaku? Next Episode 7 -Watching the Wide Shows (to receive …

In Episode 5, Japan is divided by a very difficult question it had managed to avoid, until 1993. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1 - Japan in 1993 Episode 2 - Seduced by Sumo Episode 3 - Sumo Fan Episode 4 - My Favourite Japan Story Next Episode 6 - How Chad Became Akebono (to receive notifications as soon as new epis…

In Episode 4, audience demand persuades SternWriter to tell his favourite Japan story which, needless to say, involves sumo. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1 - Japan in 1993 Episode 2 - Seduced by Sumo Episode 3 - Sumo Fan Next Episode 5 -Can Gaijin Have Hinkaku? (to receive notifications as soon as new episodes are …

In Episode 3, our novice Ass Prod delves deeper into the quintessentially Japanese world of sumo, as it adapts to Japan's rising global status in the early 1990s. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning: Episode 1 - Japan in 1993 Episode 2 - Seduced by Sumo Next Episode 4 - My Favourite Japan Story (to receive notifications as soon as…

In Episode 2, we get to grips with this story, diving into the wormhole of 1990s sumo wrestling, as this hitherto obscure Japanese tradition transitioned from quaint cultural relic, to global sport. Written, narrated and produced by SternWriter Audio production by Rupert Kirkham Podcast sting by Samuel Wain Series sound composition by Simon Elms If…

In Episode 1, Japan in 1993, we view the world then from the perspective of a young Londoner with a strong but ill-defined ambition, and learn how he came to swap his lucrative career as a salariman to climb the TV news ladder as a lowly Ass Prod. Written, narrated and produced by SternWriter Audio production by Rupert Kirkham Podcast sting by Samu…

Series 4 of The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories, from See Through News, tells the tale of 'the role played in a plot to Assassinate the Kink by someone you've all heard of'. The Quiet Revolutionary embraces the 19th century internet, the guillotine, dodgy watchmakers, a blowgun and Pitt the Younger, featuring a double layer of hero-worship. It's enti…

This gag was first written down a thousand years ago - it's a very old joke. In Episode 1, First Time, SternWriter explains the joke in excruciating detail. In Episode 2, Second Time, he re-tells it in a student flat in the mid 1980s. In Episode 3, Third Time, the joke is told once again in situation of 'extreme social tension' at a Californian NAS…

This gag was first written down a thousand years ago - it's a very old joke. In Episode 1, First Time, SternWriter explains the joke in excruciating detail. In Episode 2, Second Time, he re-tells it in a student flat in the mid 1980s. Now in Episode 3, Third Time, the joke is told once again in situation of 'extreme social tension' at a Californian…

This gag is a thousand years old - it's a very old joke. In Episode 1, First Time, SternWriter explains the joke in excruciating detail. In this second episode, Second Time, it's re-told in an Edinburgh student flat in the mid 1980s. This in turn contextualises Episode 3, Third Time, when the joke is told once again in situation of 'extreme social …

Episode 1 of A Classical Chinese Dirty Joke Told Thrice - First Time Series 5 of our 'The Truth Lies in Bedtimes Stories from See Through News' podcast In Episode 1, SternWriter explains why the premise of this podcast series is impossible, and then attempts to pull it off. It's a storytelling high-wire act, but if nothing else you'll end up knowin…

In Episode 10 Be Nice To Old Ladies, the final part of Series 4, we tell how the hero of this story taught the benefits of listening to another hero born more than a century after he died, and how this in turn benefitted victims of 'this cruel disease'. Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning, so if you've not yet heard the story so f…

In Episode 9, Series 4 'A Tale of Two Wheezes', we learn how you came to be told this story by two heroes, separated by more than a century but with much in common. Next: Episode 10, Be Nice To Old Ladies Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning, so if you've not yet heard the story so far, here's Episode 1, Dad, Me and Jimmy P. If you…

In Episode 8, Series 4 'A Different Kind of Activism', we find what our hero did, following his extraordinary intervention to save his friends from hanging for treason...... Next: Episode 9, A Tale of Two Wheezes Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning, so if you've not yet heard the story so far, start at: Episode 1, Dad, Me and Jimm…

In Episode 7, Series 4 The Privy Council, with his friends' lives hanging by a thread, about to be cut by the Attorney-General, our hero makes an extraordinary decision... Next: Episode 8, A Different Kind of Activism Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning, so if you've not yet heard the story so far, start with Episode 1, Dad, Me an…

In Episode 6, Series 4 The Physician·s Dilemma, we join a despairing Physician as the the hours tick down to his friends being tried for Treason. Pacing his living room, he sees no way out· Next: Episode 7, The Privy Council Like all stories, it·s best to start at the beginning, so if you·ve not yet heard the story so far, here·s Episode 1, Dad, Me…

In Episode 5, Series 4 The Plot, we learn the incredible details of the Plot to Assassinate the King, and its connection to our hero. Next: Episode 6, The Physician's Dilemma Like all stories, it's best to start at the beginning, so if you've not yet heard the story so far, try Episode 1, Dad, Me and Jimmy P. If you're enjoying this yarn, please sh…

In Episode 4, Series 4 The View From Westminster, we shift perspective from a Shoreditch tavern to the apex of the Establishment, and visit the private chambers of the Prime Minister himself. Next: Episode 5, The Plot. If you enjoyed this series, please share it with others, and try our other stories. Series 1: The Story of Ganbaatar: the only deep…

In Episode 3, Series 4 of our podcast The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories, The Quiet Revolutionary - The Pint-Pot Paperweights, we eavesdrop on three bewigged plotters in a Shoreditch Tavern. Written, Produced & Narrated by SternWriter Audio Production by Samuel Wain The Quiet Revolutionary is a podcast by The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories, from See …

In Episode 2, The Cauldron, we we reveal the identity of Jimmy P, the man whose name you all know. Written, Produced & Narrated by SternWriter Audio Production by Samuel Wain Series 4, The Quiet Revolutionary: the heroic role played in a Plot to Assassinate the King by someone you've all heard of s a podcast by The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories fro…

In Episode 1 of The Quiet Revolutionay: the heroic role played in a Plot to Assassinate the King by someone you've all hears of, we discover two layers of hero worship. Written, Produced & Narrated by SternWriter Audio Production by Sam Wain. The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories is a See Through News production. See Through News is a non-profit social…

Written, Produced & Narrated by SternWriter. Audio Production by Samuel Wain. Betrayed is a podcast by The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories, from See Through News. See Through News is a non-profit social media network with the Goal of Speeding Up Carbon Drawdown by Helping the Inactive Become Active.Por See Through News

All 10 Episodes of Series 1 of The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories, from See Through News, in one giant omnibus edition. Series 1 is The Story of Ganbaatar- the Only Deep Sea Navigator in Mongolia Written, Produced and Narrated by SternWriter. Audio production by Sam Wain. The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories is a podcast from See Through News. See Thro…

All 10 Episodes of Series 3 of The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories, from See Through News, in one giant omnibus edition. Series 3 is Life on the Edge: Taiwan, China, America, and the Moment I Realised Mrs. Wang Was Mostly Guessing What Her Husband Said. Written, Narrated and Produced by SternWriter Sound Production by Rupert Kirkham The Truth Lies in…

In Episode 6, we learn what happened to Small Wang, in his wooden wheelbarrow, on the beach. Written, Produced & Narrated by SternWriter Audio Production by Rupert Kirkham The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories is a See Through News production. See Through News is a non-profit social media network with the goal of Speeding Up Carbon Drawdown by Helping …

In Episode 10, we learn what really happened. Written, Produced & Narrated by SternWriter Audio Production by Rupert Kirkham The Truth Lies in Bedtime Stories is a See Through News production. See Through News is a non-profit social media network with the goal of Speeding Up Carbon Drawdown by Helping the Inactive Become Active.…