Jess Gormley
Jess Gormley is arts & culture video commissioning editor at the Guardian. She tweets @JesscatGormley
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The intelligence explosion: how do you stop a robot from turning evil? – original drama videoIt’s 2027 and Mental Endeavours Ltd has a problem with their flagship robot Günther. How do you program an intelligent machine not to annihilate humanity? And if its intelligence is skyrocketing faster than anyone could have predicted, are they about to run out of time?
This original drama produced by the Guardian is a super-intelligence sci-fi
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Dementia Diaries: 'It's like trying to go through a brick wall' – videoA selection of recordings with accompanying of film of caller’s individual experiences from the Dementia Diaries project
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David Attenborough on climate change: 'The world will be transformed' – videoAn extract from Liberatum’s documentary In this Climate, in which a range of cultural and environmental figures respond to the threat of climate change
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Waria at twilight: the remarkable old age home for trans Jakartans – videoPhotographer Elisabetta Zavoli spent years getting to know a famously standoffish community – who eventually granted her unprecedented access
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Kurupt FM's message to Trump: 'I'll destroy you with my lyrical wall' – videoThe cast of BBC3’s mockumentary series People Just Do Nothing – MC Grindah, Steves and Chabuddy G – talk to Kate Hutchinson
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Patti Smith reads from Oscar Wilde in HM Prison ReadingSinger and artist Patti Smith reads from Oscar Wilde’s 100-page letter De Profundis, written in the place where he had a two-year incarceration
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Inside the musical: A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer – videoA Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer is a new musical collaboration between National Theatre and Complicite Associates, looking at life with a cancer diagnosis and confronting its fears and misconceptions
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David Hockney on selfies: 'People have a deep desire to make pictures' – videoBritish artist David Hockney and art critic Martin Gayford discuss their new book A History of Pictures
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Bake Off's Nadiya Hussain: 'The kitchen is a fun place for kids' – videoNadiya Hussain, winner of Great British Bake Off 2015 and judge on Junior Bake Off shows young helpers how to make ‘very-Berry’ breakfast muffins
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A prayer for Mecca: the city that many hajj pilgrims don't see – videoAs the hajj begins once again, Saudi artist Ahmed Mater has revealed unprecedented changes to the holy city – from flashy new hotels to the loss of priceless neighbourhoods
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Simon Russell Beale reads from John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – videoTo celebrate the publication of John le Carré’s first memoir The Pigeon Tunnel this month, actor Simon Russell Beale reads from the author’s 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
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Tom Hiddleston reads from John le Carré's The Night Manager – videoTom Hiddleston reads from John Le Carré The Night Manager
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'I'll write as if I'm trying to get sacked': Stewart Lee in conversation with Alan Moore – videoWriters Stewart Lee and Alan Moore discuss the term ‘content provider’ the title of Lee’s new book
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'Bit daunting, really': the Edinburgh standups reading Chilcot in full – videoAt 2.6m words it’s something of a mouthful, but John Chilcot’s Iraq war report is being tackled by comics at the 2016 fringe in a performance expected to take two weeks. Here, they explain why holding the powerful to account is ‘exactly what Edinburgh is for’
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Impressions masterclass with Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner – videoStephen Moss learns the art of impersonation from two masters: Alistair McGowan and Rory Bremner. Will he impress his tutors with his Boris Johnson?
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La artista Doris Salcedo sobre Bogotá: 'Las fuerzas que actúan aquí son brutales' – videoDoris Salcedo nos da un recorrido por Bogotá y su estudio
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Artist Doris Salcedo on Bogotá: 'The forces at work here are brutal' – videoColombian sculptor Doris Salcedo takes us on a tour of Bogotá and her studio
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Nish Kumar: What can a satirist do with our post-truth politics? – videoComedian Nish Kumar is used to making politicians look ridiculous but they’ve started doing his job for him. How on earth do standups keep up with our leaders’ antics and a political upheaval that develops minute by minute?
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فنان سوداني في رحلة برية عبر الولايات المتحدة: 'قصة الحقوق المدنية لم تنتهي' – فيديوفنان سوداني في رحلة برية عبر الولايات المتحدة: ‘قصة الحقوق المدنية لم تنتهي’ – فيديو
The air we breathe How bad is Delhi's air? We strapped a monitor to a rickshaw to find out