Fandom: The next generation
Unexpected Elements
BBC
4.4 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Passionate K-Pop fans send us on a journey into the science of fandom. Panellists Andrada Fiskutean in Bucharest, Romania and Tristan Ahtone in Helsinki, Finland bring us stories of Star Trek’s sci-fi utopias, why allegiances affect our behaviour and how a cunning sea creature chooses which side of itself to reveal.
Presenter Marnie Chesterton meets one of her heroes - American theoretical cosmologist and particle physicist Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who helps Marnie understand the universe with lyrical beauty.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello. You have chosen a BBC podcast, but before you listen to it, we thought you might |
| 0:04.7 | like our podcast too. You might. You might. It is called Sightracked with me, Nick Grimshaw. |
| 0:09.2 | And me, Annie Mack. And we talk about the week in music. All the news, all the cultural |
| 0:14.0 | happenings in the UK and beyond. And great guests. And it's on BBC Sounds. Yes, where you can |
| 0:19.7 | also enjoy lots of playlists, music mixes and |
| 0:22.6 | live radio. Everything from my six music breakfast show to Radio 3 Unwind. But obviously start |
| 0:29.2 | with our podcast sidetrack. Obviously. Obviously. So if you like music, listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:34.9 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. |
| 0:39.9 | Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:48.2 | At the end of 2021, COP 26, the big climate change jamboree, came to the UK to the Scottish city of Glasgow. |
| 0:57.9 | I went to cover it. |
| 0:59.3 | Sadly, so did thousands of scientists, policy makers and journalists, |
| 1:04.0 | all of which meant that every hotel in Glasgow was booked up. |
| 1:08.3 | Work found us somewhere about an hour away, |
| 1:12.4 | but luckily some friends of friends generously put me up in their kids' bedroom, which was a shrine to Korean pop music, |
| 1:19.2 | wall-to-wall picks of K-pop bands. Now, my favourite musicians have mostly come from Scotland, |
| 1:25.9 | so it made me laugh to see a Scottish |
| 1:28.1 | kids room plastered with heroes from the other side of the world. I'm Marnie Chesterton |
| 1:34.2 | from the BBC World Service. This is Unexpected Elements. I'm joined by some unexpected elements pinups. |
| 1:47.1 | In Bucharest, Romania, tech journalist Andrade Fisgutin. |
| 1:50.8 | Welcome. |
| 1:52.0 | Morning, mani. |
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