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There’s a kind of layered feel to Pick of the Week with writer and broadcaster Simon Parkes: We visit forests and swamps peopled by ancestors and ghosts who talk to the living; explore the Italian obsession with the way that distinctly public and private spaces are inhabited, and there’s the murky world of computer algorithms – the nuts and bolts of the modern age that gather information about us as they click and whirr. We meet influential women - both real and imagined, wordsmiths besotted by language and accent, and experience a versatility of the human voice that you really have to hear to believe.