Room 101 with Paul Merton
Comedy of the Week
BBC
4 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Paul Merton interviews a variety of guests from the world of comedy and entertainment to find out what they would send to Room 101, as well as the one item they cannot live without.
In this episode, Hannah Fry tries to convince Paul to send complicated toilet flushes and exams to Room 101, and discusses her particular devotion to a daily ritual that she cannot live without.
Additional Material: John Irwin and Suki Webster Produced by Richard Wilson A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 0:24.6 | poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples. |
| 0:29.7 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:38.0 | BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:41.0 | Supposing you had the chance to get rid of some of your worst nightmares. podcasts. never be seen again. This is Room 101! |
| 0:53.0 | Please welcome author, presenter and president of the Institute of Mathematics and |
| 1:08.3 | his applications Professor Hannah Fry. So Hannah, do you prefer professor or president? Oh, both. Use them. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay. |
| 1:14.0 | I think you. |
| 1:15.0 | So Hannah, do you prefer professor or president? |
| 1:21.0 | Oh, both. |
| 1:22.0 | Both. |
| 1:23.0 | Use them interchangeably. |
| 1:24.0 | Okay, I'll try and combine the two. |
| 1:25.0 | I should point out at this point that maths is not my specialist subject if I've got |
| 1:30.0 | grade 5 CSE maths. |
| 1:32.0 | That's... So I want you to pitch all your remarks at the level of a sort of mildly educated chimp. |
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