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title: "Divya - Uncharted with Hannah Fry"
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# Divya - Uncharted with Hannah Fry

Uncharted with Hannah Fry BBC Radio 4 Follow Hannah Fry follows the numbers on thrilling journeys of data and discovery. Along the way we meet the remarkable people who dug into the data and unearthed something extraordinary. 4.9 (465) Personal stories Introducing... Uncharted with Hannah Fry Series 2 Trailer 3 min All Episodes Introducing... Uncharted with Hannah Fry Behind every line on a graph, there lies an extraordinary human story. Mathematician Hannah Fry is here to tell us ten of them. Uncharted with Hannah Fry will lead us through ten captivating mysteries to reveal the power of numbers behind each one. Along the way we discover the remarkable people who followed the data and unearthed something extraordinary. Sep 18, 2023 1. The Returning Soldier It’s 1973 and the UK is in crisis: runaway inflation, industrial strike action and political turmoil. Unnoticed at the time - in hospitals and front rooms around the country - something odd is happening with the country’s newborns. A higher proportion of boys are being born than ever before in the 20th Century. What was behind this puzzling trend? Hannah Fry follows one researcher’s obsessive mission to unravel the mystery.Episode Producer: Ilan Goodman Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John YorkeA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Sep 25, 2023 14 min 2. The Hockey Stick In 1998, the climate scientist Michael Mann published a simple graph shaped like an ice hockey stick: a long straight line which curves suddenly upward at the end. It was based on decades of intrepid work by scientists around the world. But the line held a stark warning. For Michael, notoriety, abuse and a global battle over the reality of climate change followed. Hannah Fry tells the remarkable story of the people behind the hockey stick: the scientists who scaled mountains and braved oceans in search of evidence, and the dramatic fallout when the world saw what they had found.Episode Producer: Ilan Goodman Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John YorkeA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Sep 25, 2023 13 min 3. The Doctor Will See You Now It’s a hot summer’s day in 1998. Two couples stand side by side in a small courtyard. Brought together by chance, they may never have met if not for one thing. A tatty piece of paper, the contents of which will change their lives, and the lives of thousands across the country, forever. Hannah Fry tells the tale of this single sheet of A4 uncovered a dark pattern and a serial murderer hiding in plain sight. A warning for sensitive listeners, that this episode contains references to murder.Episode Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John YorkeA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Sep 25, 2023 14 min 4. This Train Has Been Delayed Singapore, 2016. A high-tech driverless train system starts glitching in wild and unpredictable ways. The train company, the government, even the military are at a loss: no-one can figure out what is causing the problem. Until Jason Bay and his team of data scientists assemble an old-fashioned timetabling graph, first developed in 19th century France, which exposes an invisible culprit.Behind every line on a graph, there lies an extraordinary human story. And mathematician Hannah Fry is here to tell us ten of them. Hannah Fry tells a tale of data detectives and very naughty trains.Episode Producer: Ilan Goodman Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John YorkeA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Sep 25, 2023 13 min 5. The Choice How well do you make decisions? It’s never easy, but today John Carter is faced with an agonising choice and has just 60 minutes to make the right call. One path could lead to glory, while the other might result in death.Hannah Fry tells a tale of risk, decision making, and the single graph that changed it all.Episode Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John YorkeA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Sep 25, 2023 15 min 6. The Happiness Curve Life has its ups and downs, its sudden successes and unexpected obstacles. But amongst all the unpredictable variation, two economists believe they have identified a deep and powerful influence on our happiness: age. Happiness, it turns out, is U shaped. Hannah Fry tells a tale of orangutans, joy and misery…and joy!Presenter: Hannah Fry Executive Producer: Martin Smith Series Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter Episode Producer: Ilan GoodmanA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Oct 2, 2023 13 min 7. The Gossip Mill 2008, Hungary: a researcher stands on a factory floor quizzing a bemused employee. The tile manufacturing company is in trouble, and the researcher is there to help. But his questions seem silly: Who do you go to for advice? Who do you chat to? What use is the science of networks to a company producing floor tiles? Hannah Fry tells a tale about the precarious power of networks.Episode Producer: Ilan Goodman Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John YorkeA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Oct 2, 2023 13 min 8. In the Habit What is the secret to ageing well? Humankind has been in search of an answer for millions of years. But one man believes he may have found the beginnings of an answer, and it’s hiding in a convent.Hannah Fry tells a tale of a single scatter graph which might reveal the key to longevity.Episode Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John YorkeA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Oct 2, 2023 14 min 9. Access Denied A young researcher gains access to a secretive data set and discovers something shocking. What happens when a system designed to help people harms them instead? Hannah Fry tells a tale about the mysterious realm of artificial intelligence.Episode Producers: Lauren Armstrong-Carter and Clem Hitchcock Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John YorkeA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Oct 2, 2023 14 min 10. Devil in the Detail Thomas Herndon was happily studying economics at the University of Massachusetts, when one day is punctured by a discovery. It appears to be an anomaly which, if true, will shake the intellectual foundations of a global movement, and could undermine politicians around the world. Hannah Fry tells the extraordinary story of a student who will go head to head with two of the greatest economic minds in modern times. But can he win?Episode Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter Sound Design: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John YorkeA series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff. Oct 2, 2023 15 min Introducing... Uncharted with Hannah Fry Series 2 From exposing fraud to finding true love, mathematician Hannah Fry follows the numbers on thrilling adventures of data and discovery. Join her for Series 2 of Uncharted. Sep 2, 2024 3 min Load more episodes More podcasts like this Curious Cases BBC Radio 4 Change Your Mind with New Scientist New Scientist Lunchbox Envy Lunchbox Envy Here for the History BBC Sounds Google DeepMind: The Podcast Hannah Fry Answer Me This! 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