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BBC Radio 4 · 177 episodes with transcripts

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

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  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
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Making Waves

October 16, 2026

Dara Ó Briain (0:03)

I'm Hannah Fry, and I'm Dara Ó Briain.

Hannah Fry (0:05)

And this is Curious Cases.

Dara Ó Briain (0:07)

The show where we take your quirkiest questions, your crunchiest conundrums, and then we solve them with the power of science. I mean, do we always solve them?

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