Uncharted: The returning soldier

Discovery

BBC

Science, Technology

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In a few specific years across the 20th Century, the proportion of boys born mysteriously spiked. We follow one researcher’s obsessive quest to find out why.

And next, a tale of science and skulduggery. Michael Mann was a respected climate scientist, unknown outside of a small academic circle, until he produced a graph that shocked the world and changed his life forever.

Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.

Producer: Ilan Goodman

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0:00.0	If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?
0:06.0	Anonymity is our most valuable gift.
0:09.0	I'm Kirstie Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self.
0:16.0	Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.
0:20.0	Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.
0:24.2	I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.
0:30.1	Young again, with me, Kirstie Young,
0:33.0	listen on BBC Sounds.
0:35.0	The Global Story, with Smart Takes
0:38.0	The Global Story, with Smart Takes and Fresh Perspective
0:41.0	on One Big News Story, every Monday to Friday from the BBC World Service.
0:46.7	Search for The Global Story wherever you get your BBC podcasts to find out more. It's 1973 and Britain is in turmoil.
0:54.0	The year begins with a stock market. 1973 and Britain is in turmoil.
1:03.0	The year begins with the stock market crash and quickly gets worse.
1:07.0	By May, millions are on strike, miners and steel workers, postal workers and train drivers.
1:13.6	Inflation is surging and whole industries are on the brink of collapse. But away from all of the societal unrest, unmentioned in the news, something else is going on, something
1:31.2	something subtler and stranger, something that remained
1:35.0	invisible until many years later. In front rooms and hospitals across the
1:40.0	country, an unusually high number of baby boys were being the 1973 to 74 the ratio of baby boys to baby girls born in England and Wales
1:56.4	was higher than at any other time in the 20th century. What on earth was going on?
2:06.0	I'm Hannah Fry, a mathematician who studies patterns and human behavior and this is uncharted tales of data and discovery.
2:18.0	This is a series about how graphs can help you to see the invisible and about how sometimes if you know where to look
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