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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.Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ data-driven mysteries • graphs exposing fraud, errors, scandals • climate change and Anthropocene evidence • AI and justice-system harms • disasters and rescues • medicine and longevity • networks, happiness, decision science • space and ocean discoveries • true-crime patterns • dating mathThis podcast uses mathematics, statistics, and data visualisation as the starting point for narrative investigations into real-world mysteries. Guided by Hannah Fry, the stories often begin with a single striking graph, an anomaly in a dataset, or an unexpected pattern that prompts a deeper search for what the numbers actually mean. The show highlights how quantitative evidence is gathered, challenged, and interpreted, and how small analytical choices can carry large consequences.
Across the episodes, the subject matter ranges widely, spanning finance and fraud detection, public policy and the justice system, medicine and epidemiology, and the social sciences of happiness, ageing, and decision-making. Technology and modern systems feature prominently as well, including the promises and risks of artificial intelligence, the ways networks shape behaviour in organisations, and how complex infrastructure can fail in surprising ways. The natural world and scientific discovery are recurring threads, with investigations touching on climate evidence, geologic change driven by human activity, seismic risk, ocean search and rescue, deep-sea acoustics, and signals from space.
A consistent focus is the human side of data work: researchers, students, and professionals who uncover uncomfortable truths, confront institutional resistance, or overturn accepted ideas. By tracing the path from raw observations to conclusions—and sometimes to controversy—the podcast explores how numbers can reveal hidden patterns in society and nature, and how those insights can influence lives, systems, and beliefs.
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20. The Confidence Trick2024-Sep-09 17 minutes |
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19. A Different Kind of Justice 2024-Sep-09 14 minutes |
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18. The Night the Earth Shook 2024-Sep-09 17 minutes |
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17. The Golden Spike 2024-Sep-09 15 minutes |
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16. A Drop in the Ocean 2024-Sep-09 16 minutes |
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15. Song of the Sea 2024-Sep-09 14 minutes |
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14. Whispers from the Cosmos 2024-Sep-09 15 minutes |
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13. The Grain of Truth 2024-Sep-09 15 minutes |
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12. Scandal in the Air 2024-Sep-09 15 minutes |
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11. Love Bytes 2024-Sep-09 17 minutes |
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Introducing... Uncharted with Hannah Fry Series 2 2024-Sep-02 2 minutes |
10. Devil in the Detail2023-Oct-02 14 minutes |
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9. Access Denied 2023-Oct-02 14 minutes |
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8. In the Habit 2023-Oct-02 14 minutes |
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7. The Gossip Mill 2023-Oct-02 13 minutes |
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6. The Happiness Curve 2023-Oct-02 13 minutes |
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5. The Choice 2023-Sep-25 14 minutes |
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4. This Train Has Been Delayed 2023-Sep-25 13 minutes |
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3. The Doctor Will See You Now 2023-Sep-25 14 minutes |
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2. The Hockey Stick 2023-Sep-25 13 minutes |
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1. The Returning Soldier 2023-Sep-25 14 minutes |
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Introducing... Uncharted with Hannah Fry 2023-Sep-18 less than a minute |