Uncharted: The returning soldier
Hannah Fry follows one researcher's obsessive quest to discover why in one year more boys were being born than girls.
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 respected climate scientist, unknown outside of a small academic circle, until he produced a graph that shocked the world and changed his life forever.
Producer: Ilan Goodman
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- Mon 26 Feb 202420:32GMTBBC World Service Online, Americas and the Caribbean, UK DAB/Freeview & Europe and the Middle East only & BBC Afghan Radio
- Mon 26 Feb 202421:32GMTBBC World Service except Online, Americas and the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East & UK DAB/Freeview
- Tue 27 Feb 202405:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia, Americas and the Caribbean, South Asia & East Asia only
- Tue 27 Feb 202413:32GMTBBC World Service except East Asia & South Asia
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