Podcast Episodes featuring Alex Garland

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Alex Garland: Ex Machina and the Question of Consciousness

Point of Inquiry - May 18, 2015 16:14 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratings
Ex Machina, a new film that tells the story of a billionaire programmer who creates an artificially intelligent female robot, is in theaters now, and its writer and director, Alex Garland, is our special guest on Point of Inquiry this week. Although this is Garland's debut as a director he has ...

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147. Alex Garland, director of Ex Machina

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast - April 25, 2015 09:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 875 ratings
Science fiction author David Barr Kirtley (Save Me Plz and Other Stories) talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman (#253), George R. R. Martin (#22), Richard Dawkins (#46), Simon Pegg (#39), Bill Nye (#273), Margaret Atwood (#94), Neil deGrasse Tyson (#32), and Ursula K. Le Guin (#65)....

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82 Alex Garland - The Science of Ex Machina

Inquiring Minds - April 17, 2015 06:23 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 821 ratings
Alex Garland is the writer and director of Ex Machina, a recently released film about what happens when someone is asked to interact with what might be the world's first true artificial intelligence (as well as the writer of Dredd, Sunshine, and 28 Days Later). On the show this week guest host R...