Uncharted with Hannah Fry
Episodes
Introducing... Life Without
06 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hosted by Alan Davies, Life Without looks at what would happen to our planet if we removed one thing. Could pulling a single thread from our world rea...
20. The Confidence Trick
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An ambitious portfolio manager stumbles upon a perfect graph. It outlines eye watering profits. But something doesn't quite add up - could this graph ...
19. A Different Kind of Justice
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does a small informal survey lead to shocking truths about the US justice system thirty years later? Producer Lauren Armstrong Carter Sound Desi...
18. The Night the Earth Shook
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
17. The Golden Spike
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
16. A Drop in the Ocean
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A fisherman is stranded in the ocean late at night. Completely alone, the clock is ticking. How do you find one man lost in the open ocean? Can he be ...
15. Song of the Sea
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A PhD student with a passion for whales stumbles upon something strange. An eerie sound deep beneath the ocean waves is about to rock her world. Prod...
14. Whispers from the Cosmos
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In a shabby brick hut in 1967, a young researcher spots a bizarre, pulsing signal: a cosmic whisper picked up a huge receiver she helped to build. Is ...
13. The Grain of Truth
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amid the desperation of war-starved Netherlands a doctor finds a way of curing a group of gravely ill children. His finding challenges accepted medica...
12. Scandal in the Air
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At a niche engineering conference, a young researcher shares some data that looks like an embarrassing mistake. Little does he know, his simple bar ch...
11. Love Bytes
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At thirty-one, mathematician Chris McKinlay is looking for love. But if it’s all a numbers game, his are not adding up. Could he be the problem? Or ...
Introducing... Uncharted with Hannah Fry Series 2
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From exposing fraud to finding true love, mathematician Hannah Fry follows the numbers on thrilling adventures of data and discovery. Join her for Ser...
10. Devil in the Detail
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Thomas Herndon was happily studying economics at the University of Massachusetts, when one day is punctured by a discovery. It appears to be an anomal...
9. Access Denied
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A young researcher gains access to a secretive data set and discovers something shocking. What happens when a system designed to help people harms the...
8. In the Habit
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 beginni...
7. The Gossip Mill
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
2008, Hungary: a researcher stands on a factory floor quizzing a bemused employee. The tile manufacturing company is in trouble, and the researcher is...
6. The Happiness Curve
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Life has its ups and downs, its sudden successes and unexpected obstacles. But amongst all the unpredictable variation, two economists believe they ha...
5. The Choice
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
4. This Train Has Been Delayed
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Singapore, 2016. A high-tech driverless train system starts glitching in wild and unpredictable ways. The train company, the government, even the mili...
3. The Doctor Will See You Now
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
2. The Hockey Stick
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 1998, the climate scientist Michael Mann published a simple graph shaped like an ice hockey stick: a long straight line which curves suddenly upwa...
1. The Returning Soldier
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Introducing... Uncharted with Hannah Fry
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...