Curious Cases is back!

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Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain return to tackle listener's questions with the power of science!

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Hi, Curios.

I'm Dara Brian.

And I'm Hannah Frye.

And after solving, or attempting to solve, a whole host of your scientific mysteries in series Series one, we're coming back.

Attempting to solve even more.

Yes, absolutely.

This time we may even get close to actually succeeding.

I don't know.

Should we ever really do that?

But the journey is quite exciting.

It's all about the journey.

Yes, it is.

So we have got a veritable smorgasbord of bizarre and brilliant science questions.

Oh, it is astonishingly varied what we're doing in this series.

Talk about why chewing is a bad idea if you're a dinosaur.

Yep.

Eclectically, paired with what love is.

What laughter is.

That's another one.

I very, very much enjoyed that.

Invisibility.

A whole episode on diamonds.

That was a particularly sweet one, all right?

I particularly enjoyed that one.

If that wasn't your thing, fungus.

You really go big on fungus.

Hey, you can decide which camp you're in, my friend.

Crows are cleverer than your kids.

I'll back up that statement.

Yeah, I mean, that was a particularly clever crow that we got to meet.

He was, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Crow in the studio is fantastic.

Yeah, I realised after meeting it, though, that petting a crow is a dangerous activity.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, I'm not saying we haven't stayed in touch, but we haven't become close.

I think I had fantasies in advance of that meeting of how go with snuggling in

your pals.

Tucking it under my arm.

That you just walk out and you just lift your arm, the crow would fly to you.

Yeah, that's not what happened.

Not what happened.

The other thing is we do have an entire episode about false memories.

We do.

Do you remember that one?

Nope.

Oh, that's the beauty of it.

That's how it works.

Memory's great.

I remember the gist of it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And also will settle that debate we're constantly having about whose feet are more attracted to mosquitoes.

And which one of us has the cheesier feet?

Yeah, that all get explained.

Leave that as a mystery.

What an enticing tease that is.

So many topics.

So many topics.

That's Curious Cases on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

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Suffs!

The new musical has made Tony award-winning history on Broadway.

We demand to be home!

Winner, best score!

We demand to be seen!

Winner, best book!

We demand to be quality!

It's a theatrical masterpiece that's thrilling, inspiring, dazzlingly entertaining, and unquestionably the most emotionally stirring musical this season.

Suffs.

Playing the Orpheum Theater, October 22nd through November 9th.

Tickets at BroadwaySF.com.