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Will We Ever Be Able to 'Talk' With Our Pets? Advertisement We’re all familiar with the scene, either straight from the source or through one of thousands of parodies: Lassie bounds up to the farmhand and starts yipping; the farmhand says, “What is it, Lassie?”; Lassie keeps yipping; and eventually the farmhand deciphers, from this undifferentiated noise, some extremely specific message re: someone being trapped in a well or burning house. This fantasy of dog-human communication has, a half-century on, still not been realized: We have no real way to know what our pets are after when the...

Curtis, whose previous offerings include The Power of Nightmares and The Century of the Self, squirrelled himself away in the deepest bowels of the BBC to gather nuts for Can’t Get You Out of My Head — morsels of raw, unedited footage shot in every corner of the globe and then left to languish. The BBC main archive is said to contain more than 60 miles of shelving, which is a lot of trees to be shaken. Dip your toe in its first few chapters and you get the Kennedy assassination, Chinese Revolutionary operas, the Gang of Four and Russian cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov shrieking with rage as...