Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.

My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.

It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,

but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.

And because the team has such a diverse

range of skills and strengths, we've trained journalists, people who love digging through

archives, we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if you

like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK.

The sun hangs low in the sky. A soft strain of jazz swells in the air, mingling with the gentle rustle of leaves and the breeze.

Chris, our protagonist, stands tall, under a canopy of flowers, his blue eyes twinkling in the golden late light of a summer's day.

But Chris is nervous, its heart is racing.

And then all of a sudden, there she is.

Time seems to slurry and flex as the woman he loves walks towards him.

In that moment, it dawns on him.

He's found his soulmate, that something is about to spoil it all.

Chris wakes up.

The meadow is gone, replaced instead by the cold underside of a computer desk.

Would I describe myself as lucky in love? Um, no.

I'm Hannah Fry, a mathematician who studies patterns in human behavior, and this is uncharted, tales of data and discovery.

This is a series about how numbers and graphs can help you to map the invisible,

about how plots can be rich with hidden depths and unheard stories,

and about how sometimes if you know where to look,

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