Summary
Can you put a price on the perfect athlete? In baseball you can, and that’s a $700 million dollar contract. Shoehi Ohtani took to the field in Seoul for the LA Dodgers to prove that the big cheque was worth it.
It has Marnie asking – can you predict if one of your kids will become the G.O.A.T – the Greatest of All Time in any sport? She’ll also be investigating the other kind of goat – I'd say ordinary, but these ones are fighting wildfires.
We bring you the curious tale of a never-before-seen beach pebble washing up on the shores of a remote island. What are they? And get the lowdown on the most unpleasant sounding ultramarathons after a 40-year-old Scottish woman completes a race SO hard that only 20 people have finished .
Plus, gravitational waves, home-grown antivenom, and listening on double speed. Can your brain take it?
Presented by Marnie Chesterton, Phillys Mwatee and Camilla Mota.
Produced by Harrison Lewis with Tom Bonnett, Jack Lee and Cath Mcghee.
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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 |
| 0:33.7 | Sounds. The Global Jigsaw is the podcast lifting the language barrier to show you the world through its |
| 0:39.6 | media. |
| 0:41.1 | Radio Tehran. |
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| 1:03.7 | So this week I had a lovely chat with a professor of astronomy |
| 1:07.5 | who'd written a book about discoveries in our cosmos. |
| 1:12.0 | I mentioned to him how reassuringly messy and humans so many of these discoveries were, and he beamed exactly. |
| 1:18.1 | So much of science is communicated as the lone male genius, he says, telling you how clever |
| 1:23.4 | they are. Whereas what actually happens, the stories he wanted to tell in the book, are ones of |
| 1:28.3 | coincidence, mistakes in the calculations, and strange new signals from space, which turn out |
| 1:34.7 | to actually come from a faulty microwave in the telescope visitors centre, which makes science |
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