Doing a deal
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It’s Black Friday! Everyone is camping in the street, staying up all night for the very best deals around. And Unexpected Elements are joining in.
We take a look at the huge underground trade of vital resources...not run by criminals but fungi.
Then it is onto illegal animal trade and the 300 pets who got a terrible deal, strapped to a man’s chest as he tried to make it through airport security.
Have you ever asked a pigeon for advice when gambling? We hear from a professor of psychology about why you should not.
And finally, the story of Lee Sedol, the world’s best player of the board game Go, who was challenged by Google to a game worth one million dollars.
Presenter: Caroline Steel, with Phillys Mwatee and Christine Yohannes Producers: Emily Knight, Harrison Lewis, Imaan Moin and William Hornbrook Sound engineer: Searle Whittney
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.7 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.6 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:35.8 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:40.9 | This week I learned about the pitch drop experiment, one of the longest running science |
| 0:46.2 | experiments of all time. It's very simple. Just a glass funnel filled with pitch with a hole |
| 0:53.0 | in the bottom. |
| 1:01.7 | Pitch is a thick dark resin that looks solid, but if you're patient enough, you'll see it drip about once every 10 years. |
| 1:06.8 | John Mainstone was in charge of the experiment in Brisbane, Australia, for over five decades. |
| 1:09.8 | He was desperate to see the pitch drop. |
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