What Are the Odds?
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Rajesh speaks with Professor David Spiegelhalter of Cambridge University who has been collecting stories of coincidence since 2011. Rajesh wants to find out why he is so prone to coincidence. Along with discovering mind blowing coincidences Rajesh sets out on an experiment to see if he can seek out coincidence and he's very surprised by the results.
David Spiegelhalter believes its not that these things occur, it's that we notice them. As well as giving an opportunity to study probability and chance David believes that coincidences are important to us, because they are uplifting and good for us. Rajesh does not disappoint and in the making of the programme hears and experiences several coincidences which will leave you thinking what are the odds of that.
Produced by Kate Bissell.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC sounds. |
| 0:34.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, I'm May Martin from Grown-Up Land, |
| 0:42.0 | the podcast where each week Bisha Kay Ali and Ned Sedwick |
| 0:44.7 | and I untangle the adult world's most complex issues with the help of programs that you can hear |
| 0:49.9 | on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:51.4 | Yeah, we only really deal with the big stuff. How close do we have to be for you to get a friendship tattoo with me? |
| 0:56.8 | I could do it for you. I've done it with a needle and a bick pen like a needle and a bit. |
| 1:02.4 | Were you in prison? No, I was at a dinner party and things got out of hand |
| 1:06.3 | I mean that is an out of hand dinner when a dinner party gets out of hand for me we crack into their |
| 1:11.7 | parents port like we know for me, we crack into their parents' port. |
| 1:12.5 | Like we know. |
| 1:15.2 | That's Grown-Up Land and you can find it wherever you found this. |
| 1:18.1 | Now enjoy this podcast from the BBC. |
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