To prove that learning doesn’t end when you leave school, broadcaster Dara Ó Briain and the academic Hannah Fry have an entertaining and illuminating podcast series consisting of them trying to solve scientific questions sent in by listeners.
Ó Briain and Fry are a great broadcasting double act. I also like how each question, no matter how surreal, is treated with the same level of dedication and commitment to finding an answer. Two recent examples include ‘does the five second rule for dropping food on the floor really exist?’ to ‘can you make a really giant bubble?’ with a microbiologist and a bubble physicist asked respectively. And yes, before you ask, a bubble physicist is an actual real thing.
New episodes are out wherever you get your podcasts, but you can listen to new episodes first by heading to BBC Sounds.
