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* How are technology and the online world affecting our relationships? What are the benefits of dating in the digital age, and what do we need to be cautious of? * What are the upsides of using technology to find and build connections? * What are some of the privacy concerns that need to be considered when using apps and technology that collect our data? The digital world has had a profound impact on how we date, find love and build connections. Although technology and the online world tends to get a bad rap when it comes to building healthy relationships, in this podcast Dr Kate Devlin discusses how technology has shaped our experiences of love, sex and intimacy for the better. She discusses that whilst dating apps are altering our expectations of relationships, they are also helping us to finding like-minded people and form communities.

What would you pay to save a loved one who had been kidnapped? What is the price of a life? Millions of people work, live, and travel in high-risk countries; very few are kidnapped and, of those that are, almost all come home safely - how can this be? Dr Anja Shortland, Reader in Political Economy at King's College London, discusses her new book Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business.

Dr Gary Fuller is an air pollution scientist at King’s College London. this podcast explores his new book, The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution and How We Can Fight Back, which is out now.

In this podcast, Dr Russell Foster, in the Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London, explores ‘Public Atheism’, and how the “collective belief of no belief” attempts to eradicate religion from society, with some arguing that this causes as much violence and fear as extremists. In an age of political turbulence, terror and extremism; fear and blame are terms regularly used to describe feeling within society. Religion has been blamed for a number of violent incidences in recent years, but how much can a collective group of people who worship a particular faith be blamed over the extreme views of an individual?