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Uncharted: The returning soldier

Hannah Fry follows one researcher's obsessive quest to discover why in one year more boys were being born than girls.

Hannah Fry explores two tales of data and discovery.

In a few specific years across the 20th Century, the proportion of boys born, mysteriously spiked. We follow one researcher鈥檚 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.

Producer: Ilan Goodman

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27 minutes

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Tue 27 Feb 2024 13:32GMT

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