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Don't miss: War in Westworld, the power of sight and unearthly audio

This week, watch as Westworld breaks out of the park and into LA, discover why vision is so important and listen as a drama exploits the weirdness of sound

4 March 2020

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Westworld, on HBO, Sky Atlantic and Now TV from mid-March, breaks out of its blood-drenched amusement park and into a future Los Angeles for season 3, following the rebellion of some very articulate, spiritually inclined robots.

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We Know it When We See It (Basic Books) has Harvard neurobiologist Richard Masland – who died late last year – explaining why, of all our senses, it is vision that reveals so much about how we perceive, learn about and remember the world.

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Murmurs, produced by BBC Sounds, is a series of podcast dramas about cracks in reality that exploits the…

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