Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share 7. The Gossip Mill
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
7. The Gossip Mill
2008, Hungary: a researcher stands on a factory floor quizzing a bemused employee. The tile manufacturing company is in trouble, and the researcher is there to help. But his questions seem silly: Who do you go to for advice? Who do you chat to?
What use is the science of networks to a company producing floor tiles?
Hannah Fry tells a tale about the precarious power of networks.
Episode Producer: Ilan Goodman
Sound Design: Jon Nicholls
Story Editor: John Yorke
A series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff.
View all episodes
By BBC Radio 4
4.7
9999 ratings
2008, Hungary: a researcher stands on a factory floor quizzing a bemused employee. The tile manufacturing company is in trouble, and the researcher is there to help. But his questions seem silly: Who do you go to for advice? Who do you chat to?
What use is the science of networks to a company producing floor tiles?
Hannah Fry tells a tale about the precarious power of networks.
Episode Producer: Ilan Goodman
Sound Design: Jon Nicholls
Story Editor: John Yorke
A series for Radio 4 by BBC Science in Cardiff.
More shows like Uncharted with Hannah Fry
View all
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
2,105 Listeners
More or Less: Behind the Stats
894 Listeners
The Infinite Monkey Cage
1,950 Listeners
Comedy of the Week
490 Listeners
The Life Scientific
224 Listeners
BBC Inside Science
393 Listeners
No Such Thing As A Fish
4,826 Listeners
Page 94: The Private Eye Podcast
294 Listeners
Curious Cases
811 Listeners
CrowdScience
474 Listeners
Sliced Bread
147 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
2,981 Listeners
Sideways
73 Listeners
Why? with Emma Kennedy
5 Listeners
What? Seriously??
14 Listeners