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Curious Cases

BBC Radio 4

Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain tackle listeners' conundrums with the power of science!

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Too Cute 2026-11-06 · 28m
Tessellation Proliferation 2026-10-30 · 28m
Yawn Chorus 2026-10-23 · 28m
Making Waves 2026-10-16 · 28m
Identical(ish) 2026-10-09 · 28m
Trailer 2026-09-29 · 1m
Frosty Fractals 2026-01-02 · 29m
Mining for Gold (GOLD!) 2025-12-31 · 28m
Phantom Pain 2025-12-19 · 28m
Tortoise Tomfoolery 2025-12-12 · 29m
Planetary Wobble 2025-12-05 · 28m
Immortal Jellies 2025-11-28 · 29m
Mysteries from the Final Frontier 2025-11-21 · 29m
Beam Me Up, Scotty! 2025-11-14 · 29m
Going Viral 2025-11-07 · 29m
We Didn't Start the Fire 2025-10-31 · 29m
Just My Luck 2025-10-24 · 29m
Good Vibrations? 2025-10-17 · 29m
To Crab, or Not to Crab? 2025-10-10 · 29m
Trailer 2025-10-01 · 2m
Clever Crows 2025-07-04 · 29m
Memory Swap 2025-06-27 · 30m
Clowns in Spacetime 2025-06-20 · 30m
Colossal Creatures 2025-06-13 · 29m
Nano Sharks 2025-06-06 · 29m
Chuckle, Snigger and LOL 2025-05-30 · 29m
Don't Bite Me! 2025-05-23 · 30m
Aches and Rains 2025-05-16 · 29m
Furnishing with Fungi 2025-05-09 · 29m
Love Neurons 2025-05-02 · 29m
Invisibility Quest 2025-04-25 · 30m
Liar, Liar 2025-04-18 · 29m
The Diamond Throwdown 2025-04-11 · 32m
Trailer 2025-04-03 · 2m
Introducing What? Seriously?? 2025-01-16 · 5m
The Fastest Fly 2025-01-04 · 30m
Bored to Death 2024-12-28 · 30m
Freeze Me When I Die 2024-12-21 · 28m
Night Walkers 2024-12-14 · 29m
A Lemon-Powered Spaceship 2024-12-07 · 30m
Be More Athlete 2024-11-30 · 30m
Invincible Moss Piglets 2024-11-23 · 29m
The Shock Factor 2024-11-16 · 29m
The Taste of Words 2024-11-09 · 30m
In the Groove 2024-11-02 · 31m
Mirror, Mirror 2024-10-26 · 30m
The 5 Second Rule 2024-10-19 · 29m
Space Bubbles 2024-10-12 · 28m
Trailer 2024-10-04 · 2m
Introducing... Uncharted with Hannah Fry Series 2 2024-09-09 · 17m
Introducing… Uncharted with Hannah Fry 2023-10-02 · 14m
The Impossible Number 2023-02-14 · 42m
The Mind Numbing Medicine 2023-02-07 · 44m
The Resurrection Quest 2023-01-31 · 39m
The Puzzle of the Pyramids 2023-01-24 · 36m
The Magnetic Mystery 2023-01-17 · 44m
The Case of the Blind Mind's Eye 2023-01-10 · 43m
Silly Studies: The Pre-Series Teaser 2023-01-05 · 12m
Introducing Why Do We Do That? 2022-12-07 · 1m
The Puzzle of the Plasma Doughnut 2022-09-20 · 39m
The Riddle of Red-Eyes and Runny-Noses 2022-09-13 · 37m
The Problem of Infinite Pi(e) 2022-09-06 · 36m
The Suspicious Smell 2022-08-30 · 39m
The Wild and Windy Tale 2022-08-23 · 39m
The Case of The Missing Gorilla 2022-08-16 · 37m
Silly Studies: The Pre-Series Tease 2022-08-09 · 10m
The Colour Conundrum 2022-03-24 · 36m
The Turn of the Tide 2022-03-17 · 34m
The Shocking White Hair 2022-03-10 · 34m
Surprising Symmetries 2022-03-03 · 33m
The Weird Waves of Wi-Fi 2022-02-24 · 35m
The Mystery of the Teenage Brain 2022-02-17 · 34m
We’re (almost) back! 2022-02-11 · 7m
Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: A Future for Humans 2021-12-23 · 28m
Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: AI in the Economy 2021-12-15 · 28m
Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: AI in Warfare 2021-12-08 · 28m
Rutherford and Fry on Living with AI: The Biggest Event in Human History 2021-12-01 · 28m
The Venomous Vendetta 2021-11-11 · 43m
The Slippery Situation 2021-11-04 · 38m
The Painless Heart 2021-10-28 · 37m
The Weirdness of Water, Part 2 2021-10-21 · 40m
The Weirdness of Water, Part 1 2021-10-14 · 37m
The Guiding Hound 2021-10-07 · 39m
We’re back! 2021-09-30 · 9m
More Frytful Scares 2021-02-23 · 29m
Back to The Sinister Hand 2021-02-16 · 30m
A Weighty Matter, Part 2 2021-02-09 · 41m
A Weighty Matter, Part 1 2021-02-02 · 43m
The Flying Clock and the Stopped Watch 2021-01-26 · 50m
The Mosquito Conundrum 2021-01-19 · 45m
The Scientific Exploration of Astrology 2021-01-12 · 50m
The Noises That Make Us Cringe 2021-01-05 · 48m
The Pizza Diet 2020-12-29 · 42m
The Good and Bad in Fungi 2020-12-22 · 48m
The Martian Mission 2020-12-15 · 43m
The Hamster Power Hypothesis 2020-12-08 · 38m
We’re back! 2020-12-01 · 11m
The Space Burrito 2020-07-14 · 34m
The Zedonk Problem 2020-07-07 · 41m
The End of Everything 2020-06-30 · 44m
The Sting in the Tail 2020-06-23 · 43m
The Seeded Cloud 2020-06-16 · 34m
The Growling Stomach 2020-06-09 · 35m
We’re back! 2020-06-03 · 2m
The Exotic Wormhole 2020-03-06 · 38m
A Cold Case, Part 2 2020-02-28 · 34m
A Cold Case, Part 1 2020-02-21 · 34m
The ASMRnswer 2020-02-14 · 38m
Hannah's ASMR Cocktail 2020-02-14 · 4m
Adam's ASMR Cocktail 2020-02-14 · 5m
The Power of Love 2020-02-07 · 35m
The Golden Secret 2020-01-31 · 28m
We’re Back! 2020-01-24 · 13m
The End of the World 2019-12-09 · 43m
The Trouble Sum Weather 2019-11-22 · 35m
The Heart of the Antimatter 2019-11-15 · 32m
Stephen Fry's Identity Crisis 2019-11-08 · 36m
A Frytful Scare, Part 2 2019-11-01 · 33m
A Frytful Scare, Part 1 2019-10-25 · 31m
Curious Cases Returns 2019-10-18 · 14m
Jurassic Squawk 2019-05-03 · 37m
The Lunar Land, Part 2 2019-04-26 · 29m
The Lunar Land, Part 1 2019-04-19 · 30m
An Instrumental Case 2019-04-12 · 39m
The Periodic Problem 2019-04-05 · 28m
The Mesmerist 2019-03-29 · 35m
Coming Soon – More Curious Cases 2019-03-22 · 4m
The Horrible Hangover 2018-12-21 · 31m
The Good Bad Food 2018-12-14 · 26m
Two Infinities and Beyond, Part 2 2018-12-07 · 31m
Two Infinities and Beyond, Part 1 2018-11-30 · 32m
The Stressful Scone 2018-11-23 · 33m
The Viking Code 2018-11-16 · 26m
A World of Pain 2018-09-07 · 34m
The Random Request 2018-08-31 · 26m
The Running Joke 2018-08-24 · 38m
The Alien Enterprise, Part 2 2018-08-17 · 25m
The Alien Enterprise, Part 1 2018-08-10 · 26m
The Dawn Chorus 2018-06-01 · 27m
The Lucky Number 2018-05-25 · 25m
The Déjà Vu 2018-05-18 · 26m
The Human Instrument 2018-05-11 · 28m
The Fifth Dimension 2018-05-04 · 27m
The Cosmic Egg 2018-03-02 · 31m
The Atomic Blade 2018-02-28 · 24m
The Tiniest Dinosaur 2018-02-23 · 29m
The Enigma of Sex, Part 2 2018-02-16 · 23m
The Enigma of Sex, Part 1 2018-02-09 · 25m
Goldfinger's Moon Laser 2018-01-12 · 24m
The Curious Face Off 2018-01-05 · 26m
The Cosmic Speed Limit 2017-12-29 · 23m
The Dreadful Vegetable 2017-12-22 · 30m
The Baffled Bat 2017-12-15 · 25m
Adventures in Dreamland 2017-09-29 · 24m
The Shocking Surprise 2017-09-22 · 29m
The Sticky Song 2017-09-15 · 25m
The Polar Opposite 2017-09-08 · 20m
The Curious Cake-Off 2017-09-01 · 20m
Kate Bush's Sonic Weapon 2017-06-16 · 21m
Itchy and Scratchy 2017-06-15 · 21m
The Burning Question 2017-06-14 · 19m
The Dark Star 2017-06-02 · 23m
The Cat Who Came Back 2017-05-19 · 19m
A Code in Blood 2017-03-15 · 12m
The Forgetful Child 2017-03-10 · 16m
The Astronomical Balloon 2017-03-10 · 15m
The World That Turns 2017-03-10 · 15m
The Broken Stool 2017-03-10 · 17m
The Lost Producer 2016-12-02 · 18m
The Bad Moon Rising 2016-12-02 · 15m
The Hunt for Nothing, Part 2 2016-12-02 · 14m
The Hunt for Nothing, Part 1 2016-12-02 · 15m
The Melodic Mystery 2016-12-02 · 15m
The Strongest Substance 2016-10-07 · 16m
The Space Pirate 2016-10-05 · 15m
The Portly Problem 2016-10-05 · 14m
The Sinister Hand Part 2 2016-10-04 · 14m
The Sinister Hand, Part 1 2016-10-03 · 14m
The Counting Horse 2016-06-02 · 16m
The Hairy Hominid 2016-05-30 · 17m
A Study in Spheres 2016-05-26 · 16m
The Psychic Tear 2016-05-26 · 15m
The Tea Leaf Mystery 2016-05-26 · 19m
The Stellar Dustbin 2016-02-18 · 14m
The Squeamish Swoon 2016-02-11 · 13m
The Aural Voyeur 2016-02-11 · 12m
The Phantom Jam 2016-02-11 · 13m
The Scarlet Mark 2016-02-11 · 14m
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