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Tales of data and discovery with Hannah Fry.

Behind every line on a graph, there lies an extraordinary human story. Mathematician Hannah Fry is here to tell us ten of them.

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 Fry will lead us through ten captivating mysteries to reveal the power of numbers behind each one. Along the way we discover the remarkable people who followed the data and unearthed something extraordinary.

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Uncharted with Hannah Fry: 2. The Hockey Stick

2. The Hockey Stick

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A climate scientist who shocked the world and provoked a scandal.

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.

In 1998, the climate scientist Michael Mann published a simple graph shaped like an ice hockey stick:  a long straight line which curves suddenly upward at the end. It was based on decades of intrepid work by scientists around the world. But the line held a stark warning. For Michael, notoriety, abuse and a global battle over the reality of climate change followed. 
	
Hannah Fry tells the remarkable story of the people behind the hockey stick: the scientists who scaled mountains and braved oceans in search of evidence, and the dramatic fallout when the world saw what they had found.

Episode Producer: Ilan Goodman
Sound Design: Jon Nicholls 
Story Editor: John Yorke

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