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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: 5. The Choice

5. The Choice

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John Carter must make a momentous decision. Can a data set guide him to the right choice?

John Carter has a terrible choice to make. One path offers glory, the other to death. His decision hinges on one graph, but can it help him take the right road?

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 call. One path could lead to glory, while the other might result in death.

Hannah Fry tells a tale of risk, decision making, and the single graph that changed it all.

Episode Producer: Lauren Armstrong-Carter
Sound Design: Jon Nicholls 
Story Editor: John Yorke

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