The Reality Check

After seeing a viral video featuring Stephen Fry, Cristina examines the practice of turning on same-language subtitling and its surprising effect on reading skills, particularly in children. Adam look...

13 Mars 202128min

Darren looks into whether COVID-19 kills more men than women after a friend shares an article suggesting women are more adversely affected by the pandemic. When toy maker Hasbro announced they are reb...

6 Mars 202127min

The mantra when Pat was learning to drive was 'hands at 10 and 2 o'clock' when gripping the steering wheel. Turns out, all of us Gen X'ers may need a driver refresher course. Adam does a deep dive int...

27 Feb 202128min

Cristina's back this week asking the important questions...are McDonald's eggs frozen? If you're still reeling from the gut punch that was 2020, Darren brings us a delightful segment on "Good News in ...

21 Feb 202125min

Adam and Darren are reunited and happily hijack this week's show. Darren breaks down the post hoc fallacy, aka 'after this, therefore because of this', and examines it in the context of COVID vaccines...

13 Feb 202125min

In what has become a yearly ritual to highlight the futility of 'predictions', Adam, Producer Pat, and Cristina guess at what might happen in 2021 and revisit the panel's 2020 predictions to see how w...

6 Feb 202128min

Aaand...we're back! This week we dedicate an entire show to chat with our good mate and frequent guest, Dr. Stuart Farrimond, medical doctor turned science communicator and food scientist. Stu joins P...

24 Jan 202157min

Planetary scientist and Hall of Famer guest Dr. Stuart Robbins joins Pat and Cristina to respond to a listener who asks why the Earth experiences two high tides instead of just one. Adam brings us a P...

20 Dec 202030min