Mathematics

Last Edited: 22-Sep-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

General Topics
Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
BBC TV4
14-Jan-2010
The Secret Life of Chaos
Presenter Jim Al-Khalili
Producer/Director Nic Stacey
AVI VIDEO
59:14, 604102

Date
Title
Cast
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13-Apr-2004
Fold here first
Origami
Ian Stewart
Producer: Angela Hind
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07-May-2004
My Life in Numbers
Producer: Alan Daulby
14:00, 13135, S
24-Jun-2005
Trig Happy
Trigonometry
Huw Williams
Produced by Martin Curtig

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05-Jul-2005
Ha Ha Mathematics
Nick Baker, David Singmaster, Geoffrey Durham
Producer: Ian Gardhouse
28:09, 26398, S
30-Sep-2005
Fold Here First
Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding
Ian Stewart
Producer Brian King
28:05, 26339, S
21-Jul-2006
The Prime of Marin Mersenne
Brian Cox, Marcus de Sautoy, Peter Cave,
Peter Dear, Professor Colin Russell
Producer: Julian Maye
28:02, 26290, S
14-Jun-2010 to
25-Jun-2010
A Brief History of Mathematics
  1. Newton and Leibniz
  2. Leonard Euler
  3. Joseph Fourier
  4. Evariste Galois
  5. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  6. The mathematicians who helped Einstein
  7. Georg Cantor
  8. Henri Poincare
  9. Hardy and Ramanujan
  10. Nicolas Bourbaki
Marcus du Sautoy
Producer: Anna Buckley
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11-Mar-2002
12-Mar-2002
13-Mar-2002
14-Mar-2002
15-Mar-2002
Five Numbers
  1. Zero
  2. Pi
  3. Golden Ratio
  4. Imaginary Numbers
  5. Infinity
Writer/presenter: Simon Singh
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
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22-Apr-2003
29-Apr-2003
06-May-2003
13-May-2003
20-May-2003
Another Five Numbers
  1. Four
  2. Seven
  3. The Largest Prime
  4. Kepler’s Conjecture
  5. Game Theory
Writer/presenter: Simon Singh
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
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23-Aug-2005
30-Aug-2005
06-Sep-2005
13-Sep-2005
20-Sep-2005
Further Five Numbers
  1. One
  2. Two
  3. Six
  4. G the gravitational constant
  5. 1729, the 1st Ramanujan
Writer/presenter: Simon Singh
Producer: Adrian Washbourne
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31-Aug-2004
07-Sep-2004
14-Sep-2004
21-Sep-2004
28-Sep-2004
Five Shapes
  1. The Cube
  2. The Pyramid
  3. The Sphere
  4. The Bagel
  5. The Blob
Marcus du Sautoy
Produced by Anna Buckley and Erica Wright
LOST or MISSING
07-Oct-2013
Nirvana by Numbers
Alex Bellos
produced by Andrew Luck-Baker
27:55, 26122, S
20-Dec-2013
Maths and Magic
Presenter/producer: Jolyon Jenkins
27:44, 25954, S
06-Feb-2014
How to Teach Maths
Alex Bellos
produced by Ania Lichtarovich
27:39, 25882, S

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Date
Title
Cast
Parameters
18-Nov-2013 to
29-Nov-2013

16-Feb-2015 to
27-Feb-2015
A History of Britain in Numbers
  1. Population
  2. Prosperity
  3. Health
  4. Stuff
  5. Homes
    omnibus 1 
  6. Education
  7. Work
  8. Old Age
  9. Women
  10. Living
    omnibus 2 
  11. knowledge and power
  12. war
  13. war reshapes the state
  14. power to tax
  15. public spending
  16. social security
  17. debt
  18. infrastructure
  19. order and punishment
  20. voting
Andrew Dilnot
Producer: Michael Blastland


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