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Exploring tales of data and discovery in Uncharted

Listeners’ feedback on Uncharted’s numerical investigation and the producer responds. Plus a listener asks why the BBC uses imperial measurements when most of the world is metric?

Professor Hannah Fry recently explored tales of data and discovery in her series Uncharted - running as part of the Discovery programme. We hear listeners’s feedback to this numerical investigation and we are joined by the series producer.

Plus, a listener asks why imperial measurements are used in BBC reports when most of the world do not use this system?

Presenter: Rajan Datar
Producer: Howard Shannon
A Whistledown production for the BBC World Service

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9 minutes

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Mon 3 Mar 202503:50GMT
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