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Hannah Fry: ‘It made me realise that life isn't a problem to be solved, it's an experience to be had.’

Hannah Fry is a professor in the Mathematics of Cities at UCL, a best-selling author, a TV presenter and a podcaster. But in January 2021, her life changed when she found out she had cervical cancer. At just 36 years old, with two young daughters, she was faced with her own mortality. She turned to the statistics to find out what she was facing. But what she found within them shocked her.

She joined Paulette Edwards to discuss her deeply personal documentary: Making Sense of Cancer which she started filming as a way to cope with her diagnosis.

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