Welcome to Seriously with me Testament. Question, who's your hero? And what would you experiment in the opportunity.

It's crazy to think that if you wanted to get a message to that person,

it would likely take no more than six degrees of separation to reach them.

That's what a famous experiment in the 1960s claimed, that on average

a message took only six steps to pass between two strangers in America. But does that idea

of six degrees of separation still hold true?

Are we so easily connected to everyone else in the world?

And these days with social media, are those six degrees quickly becoming five or four? Three. In this documentary Julia Hobbsbaum investigates how social

networks work and how they can work on us. This is six degrees of

connection.

We're going to do an experiment.

My producer, Jolion Jenkins, is going to give me a random name.

Could be anyone in Britain.

And we're going to try to put together a chain that connects me with them, not using the internet.

We're going to see how short that chain is.

Jolion, who've you picked? Give me my marching orders.

Well, I decided to pick someone totally at random by choosing a random postcode anywhere in the UK.

You can do this online.

And it came up with a postcoat on the Isle of Coal in Scotland and I looked at the first person I could identify in that postcoat area and she is called

Heloise Allen.

What's your first thought? How are you going to reach Heloise?

Well my first thought is a tiny moment of panic obviously

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