Fiction highly inspired by (virtual) reality, theater that makes the leap to audio, a project from the Observatory of Diversity in Audiovisual Media (ODA), and humor and gastronomy in English make up the podcast menu
this
April.
'Digital twins'
Jorge Carrión, creator of the
fiction
podcast
Solaris
, had a new concept floating around in his head: digital twins. They are virtual representations of an object or system that spans its life cycle and is updated based on data in real time. It can be a person or a city. With that idea, he created the new story of him.
In it, Fernando Álvarez, a journalist specialized in technology, divorced and father of two children, receives a message. Someone tells him that in Cross Roads, a scientific community in Shenzen, China, everything has its digital twin: people, houses, even the clouds. And he decides to travel to check it out.
This fiction essay
podcast
about this technology explores in six episodes the human condition in the context of metaverses, virtual clones and artificial intelligence. Science fiction about a phenomenon that could become pure reality. With sound design by Teo Rodríguez and the lead voice of actor Pablo Derqui, it is now available in full on Podium Podcast.
New life to Vargas Llosa's theater
Coinciding with World Theater Day, on March 27, Audible premiered
Odysseus and Penelope
and
One Thousand Nights and One Night
, librettos from
Nobel Prize in Literature Mario Vargas Llosa. He is voiced by actors Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Pedro Casablanc. The actress has already performed both works by the Peruvian author on stage (and many others in the last 20 years) and she takes advantage of her knowledge of both texts and her characters to give them new life in audio format.
'Cut! Decoding fiction'
Once a month, Jesús Blanquiño and Jorge Gonzalo will explore
crucial topics around representation and narrative in cinema, series and other contemporary audiovisual media in this
video podcast
. Diversity on screen from a very specific point of view will be the protagonist of each installment and will explain how this way of reflecting the world affects the collective imagination and how we can build more inclusive references. The first episode is now available, dedicated to censorship and resistance in Hollywood, in collaboration with ODA, the Observatory of Diversity in Audiovisual Media. In the coming months it will have guests such as Samantha Hudson, María Rosón and Astrid Jones.
In English: 'Off menu'
British comedians Ed Gamble and James Acaster invite prominent people to their magical restaurant so that each one can choose their favorite starter, main course, side dish, dessert and drink. Have you ever wanted to eat the food of your dreams? It's what
Off Menu
allows your guests to do.
To date, the
podcast
has more than 130 million downloads. Actor Finn Wolfhard (star of the
Stranger Things
series and the new
Ghostbusters
movie ), Ray Winstone (star of
Sexy Beast
) and comedian Angela Barnes have recently passed by that imaginary table.
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