Hannah Fry

Discover the remarkable story of visionary countess, Ada Lovelace, who realized the full potential of Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine—a precursor to the modern computer. A prophet of the digital age, Lovelace published articles about the machine that contained several early “computer programs.”

Hannah Fry uncovers the secrets behind the miraculous technologies of the modern world, revealing the mind-blowing stories behind their invention.

This mind-expanding documentary concerning our technological revolution reveals what data is and how it is captured, stored, shared and analyzed.

Dr. Hannah Fry takes us on a whistle-stop tour around the mathematics of success, to help us understand how to get more of what we want in our own lives. From the best way to bag a budget dinner or keep the kids quiet, to averting nuclear Armageddon and negotiating global climate change agreements.

In this award-winning documentary, Hannah Fry records her own cancer journey in raw and emotional personal footage, where the realities of life after diagnosis are laid bare. She starts to interrogate the way we diagnose and treat cancer by digging into the statistics to ask whether we are making the right choices in how we treat this disease. Are we sometimes too quick to screen and treat cancer?

Expert historians and scholars explore some of the most consequential innovations and their origins, including the TV, concrete and penicillin.