What if the next pandemic could be predicted before it even begins?
Hannah and Michael step into the unsettling world of outbreak simulations, where scientists map invisible infections, model human behaviour, and try to stop global catastrophe before it starts.
Some warnings save millions. Others get ignored, until it’s too late.
After the break the conversation takes a turn into space stations, fizzy drinks in zero gravity, the first microscopes, and gravitational waves bending the fabric of spacetime itself.
Welcome to Field Notes!
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Animator: Sam Benson
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Assistant Producer: Lucy Lipscombe
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Exec Producer: Neil Fearn
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