Sep 2024

19. A Different Kind of Justice

How does a small informal survey lead to shocking truths about the US justice system thirty years later? Producer Lauren Armstrong Carter Sound Designer: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John Yorke

14m 6s

Sep 2024

18. The Night the Earth Shook

In a small Italian city nestled in the Apennine mountains, a series of low level tremors are setting nerves on edge. Is this just a passing phase, or a prelude to something far more devastating? Producer: Ilan Goodman Sound Designer: Jon Nicholls Story Editor: John Yorke

17m 11s

Sep 2024

17. The Golden Spike

At a conference in Mexico, one scientist’s outburst launches a global quest. Hannah Fry follows a group of researchers on the hunt for a ‘golden spike’: the boundary, marking a shift into a dramatic new geological period dominated, not by volcanoes and asteroids, but the influenc ... Show More

15m 52s

Jan 2023

Immersive Remix: "The Foster Portfolio" by Kurt Vonnegut

A financial advisor meets his new client: a hardworking, unassuming man with a curious and potentially life-changing secret. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

46m 44s

Mar 2024

Uncharted: The doctor will see you now

Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.Two couples are brought together by a tragedy and a tatty piece of paper, which reveals a serial murderer hiding in plain sight. And, across the world in Singapore, a metro system is misbehaving wildly. The rail engineers and co ... Show More

27m 25s

Mar 2024

Uncharted: The happiness curve

Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.Do orangutans - or humans - experience a midlife crisis? Hidden deep in the data, two economists have found a surprising pattern: happiness is U shaped. And, John Carter has a terrible choice to make. One path offers glory, the ... Show More

15m 19s

Mar 2024

Uncharted: The gossip mill

Hannah Fry explores two more tales of data and discovery.Gossip and rumour are plaguing a tile manufacturing company. The chatter is pulling morale to new lows, and amid it all, a question hangs in the air: who is spreading it? Can the science of networks find out? And, what is t ... Show More

27m 19s

Mar 2024

Uncharted: Access denied

Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.A young researcher gains access to a secretive data set and discovers a system causing harm to the very people it is supposed to help. One day a student makes a discovery which, if true, could shake the intellectual foundations ... Show More

27m 25s

Nov 2021

The Four-Fifteen Express Pt. 2

The plot thickens as Langford immerses himself in an investigation to determine what’s real and what isn't. But when he arrives at an answer, it is far more sinister than he could have imagined. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

34m 1s

Feb 2024

Uncharted: The returning soldier

Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.In a few specific years across the 20th Century, the proportion of boys born, mysteriously spiked. We follow one researcher’s obsessive quest to find out why. And next, a tale of science and skulduggery. Michael Mann was a respe ... Show More

27m 25s

Oct 2021

Level B.98 the Dragons' Den

How a business dream can be shattered, or made a reality

4m 15s

Oct 2019

Self-Made Man

The mysterious founder and CEO of a tech company is about to tell the world the secret of his latest product… and his past. Written by Luke Burns Performed by Richie Moriarty, Josh Perilo, Jon Cook, Daniel Hubbard, Frankie Johnson, Louis Kornfeld, Mary McDonnell, Jesse Vanden ... Show More

26m 54s

20. The Confidence Trick