Introducing a brand new series of Curious Cases!

Curious Cases

BBC

Technology, Science

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Curious Cases is returning! Superstar mathematician and broadcaster Hannah Fry teams up with legendary comedian and fellow science nerd Dara Ó Briain for an all-new series of the show which takes your quirkiest questions and solves them with the power of SCIENCE.

In this short preview ep, our dynamic duo tease some of the upcoming episodes in which they enlist the world’s top experts to tackle the most profound and puzzling questions to have ever trickled through your curious minds: Could you power a spaceship with a lemon? Can you actually die of boredom? Why do some people *taste* words? Why does Hannah have absolutely no sense of rhythm? And could we stop climate change with massive space bubbles!?

Producers: Marijke Peters and Ilan Goodman Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem A BBC Studios Audio Production

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0:00.0	Was Amber Lynn really a wicked queen?
0:04.4	People feared women who were smart.
0:06.8	M flay girl.
0:08.0	Exactly.
0:09.0	What about resputing?
0:10.4	A miraculous mystic or a die-hard deviant. I think there's some bad stuff in there. I do weirdly respect him.
0:17.0	On evil genius, we are the judges of that.
0:20.0	Join me, Russell Kane and a host of comedians as we put more historical legends under scrutiny to find out if they're evil or genius.
0:32.0	Evil genius listen on BBC sounds. Hello curios, I've got some quite big news for you because we are finally
0:39.8	finally coming back to your ears with a shiny new series of curious cases.
0:45.0	First episode you'll find it next week.
0:47.0	But there has been one quite big change.
0:50.0	I've got a new partner in crime.
0:52.0	Hello, that would be me.
0:54.0	Do you recognize that Irish voice?
0:56.0	It's Daro Briin!
0:58.0	Hello everyone, it's the pleasure to be here.
0:59.0	It's a pleasure to have you.
1:01.0	I, which I think makes the show both more Irish and more mathematical.
1:05.0	Yeah good, well both of those are good things.
1:07.0	Both of those are excellent things.
1:08.0	Okay, so now you've been inducted, can you explain what the show is about? It's quite random, isn't it?
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