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Timandra Harkness experiments with a podcast about what risk means to different people, from improvisers to volcanologists.
Episodes
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
In this episode, Timandra talks to Jo Wood, who has been a probation officer for 14 years, about the art and science of measuring risk and how it feels to reduce the risks somebody poses to others, to society, or to themselves.
Friday Jul 19, 2019
Friday Jul 19, 2019
A new podcast from broadcaster, writer and comic Timandra Harkness.
In this episode, Timandra meets three vulcanologists at Cheltenham Science Festival. Rebecca Williams, Jazmin Scarlett and Christopher Jackson talk about volcanoes, how risky it is to study them, and what frightens them more than molten rock.
See www.takeariskshow.com for more.
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 2019
A new podcast from broadcaster, writer and comic Timandra Harkness.
In this episode, Timandra talks to Bill Harvey, an engineer with an expert eye for railway bridges, how they were built, and whether it's still safe to run trains across them.
See www.takeariskshow.com for more
Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 2019
A new podcast from broadcaster, writer and comic Timandra Harkness.
In this episode, Timandra talks to Professor Gerry Thomas at Imperial College, London, who’s been studying the health risks of radiation from Chernobyl since 1992. Timandra wants to know how big a risk she took by visiting Chernobyl earlier this year.
See www.takeariskshow.com for more.