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Page Turners - S1E28: A byte-sized chat with Jeanette Winterson

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Humankind and artificial intelligence (AI) should thrive side-by-side and start saving the planet together. Uploading our consciousness to a super server could mean the end of death. Jeanette Winterson CBE celebrated English writer and author of "12 Bytes" discusses these futuristic topics - including her corner of the metaverse - with Page Turners' Melanie Oliveiro. 

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Page Turners - S1E9: Debut novelist Sandeep Ray's nameless character torn between two worlds

Fleeing bloodshed in pre-Partition Bengal and settling in pre-independence Malaya, "A Flutter in the Colony" by academic Sandeep Ray is an immigrant's tale of tragedy, love and redemption. He tells Page Turners' presenter and producer Melanie Oliveiro about his debut novel's underlying themes. 

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Page Turners - S1E8: Bringing pontianaks, monsters & sea witches to life with Gaiman fan Meihan Boey

In "The Formidable Miss Cassidy", Scottish heroine Leda tries her darndest to excel at a governess job in 1800s Singapore. But monsters and vampires insist on getting in her way. Singaporean author Meihan Boey tells Page Turners' Melanie Oliveiro how this award-winning horror-comedy novel came to be.

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Page Turners - S1E7: Forensic pathologist & author Dr Rohayu Adnan is dead serious about her job

What's it like tending to the dead for a living? Dr Rohayu Adnan - one of Malaysia’s leading forensic pathologists – tells Page Turners host and producer Melanie Oliveiro about a job less ordinary, as detailed in her book “A Dead Body Never Lies”.

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Page Turners - S1E6: Back-to-office woes? Dr Douglas Gentile helps you take stock of these negative emotions

How do you cope with toxic people and bad personal habits at the post-COVID workplace? Psychology professor Dr Douglas Cheolsoeng Gentile, author of “Finding the Freedom to Get Unstuck and Be Happier”, shares some sound advice with Page Turner's Melanie Oliveiro.

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Page Turners - S1E5: Recreating Iron Man's exoskeleton suit and more with physicist & author Dr Suzie Sheehy

Are the over-the-top inventions in Hollywood movies like "Iron-Man" and "Angels & Demons" realistic or hogwash? Page Turners' Melanie Oliveiro gets the answers from physicist Dr Suzie Sheehy author of "The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World".

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