That's Not So Random!
Teach Me A Lesson with Greg James and Bella Mackie
BBC
4.8 • 957 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Greg James and Bella Mackie didn’t pay much attention at school. So they’re asking Britain’s most inspiring teachers to show them what they missed in this series of fascinating and fun lessons.
This week it's maths with Mr Fisher (call him Rob) who teaches Greg and Bella why it really annoys him when people say "that's SO random", when the things in question aren't random.
Along the way we learn what random actually means, with examples from the National Lottery and playlist shuffle, and why humans are so bad at choosing things randomly.
Bad students of all ages are welcome. Expect brilliant teachers, captivating subjects but absolutely no homework.
Get in touch with your funny school stories and teacher recommendations - email us at teachme@bbc.co.uk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | By the end of this podcast, we're going to answer the question, |
| 0:08.1 | what is random? |
| 0:10.2 | That's so random. |
| 0:15.0 | Teach me a lesson. |
| 0:18.0 | Teach me a lesson. Teach me a lesson. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Greg James. I'm Bella Mackie and this is Teach Me a Lesson, the |
| 0:25.4 | podcast where we get teachers to tell us the fascinating stuff we would have learned |
| 0:28.6 | at school if we'd been paying attention properly or our teachers liked us. |
| 0:31.6 | Speaking for me. |
| 0:36.0 | Before we go any further, I just want to mention that we have a spin-off |
| 0:40.0 | podcast called Teach Me a Lesson, Break Time. |
| 0:43.2 | That makes it sound really fancy, |
| 0:45.2 | as if we've got like a sort of sister series |
| 0:47.6 | because we're so successful. |
| 0:48.7 | A new episode went up last week |
| 0:50.5 | and we have special guests on them. And last week was the wonderful comedian |
| 0:55.2 | Joe Lice it and you will find out how many wheat of it he used to put away before |
| 1:01.1 | school. I'm gonna say it's a monstrous amount. Think |
| 1:04.8 | about yes think of a number it won't be enough yeah it's stupid like he owes |
| 1:10.6 | his mother money for that. Break time is also where we read out your |
| 1:14.2 | embarrassing school stories so please do keep sending them in to teach me at BBC. |
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