All Episodes of The Secret Genius of Modern Life

Season 1

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  8.0/1040 votes

  Bank Card

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/10/2022

  Hannah Fry takes a look at the bank card, the digital key to accessing cash, and finds out how its extraordinary innovations have some surprising and sinister origins.

  Director: James Howard

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/1033 votes

  Food Delivery App

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/17/2022

  Hannah Fry tucks into the tech behind food delivery apps, which are now used by 24 million people in the UK. Hannah finds out how pizza made us fall in love with the internet.

  Director: Declan Healy, Valerie Mellon

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.8/1036 votes

  Virtual Assistant

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/2022

  Hannah Fry delves into the inner workings of virtual assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri, which are now found in almost half of all UK homes.

  Director: Lyndon Bruce

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/1031 votes

  Electric Car

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/1/2022

  Hannah Fry discovers why innovations in meat packing almost derailed the electric car revolution and how a breakthrough in camcorder batteries led to Elon Musk’s electric empire, as well as demonstrating how not to drive a multimillion dollar prototype car of the future.

  Director: James Howard, Alastair Duncan, Fay Finlay

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.7/1030 votes

  Fitness Tracker

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/8/2022

  Hannah Fry finds out how 1970s car crashes helped us to count our steps, why WWII dog-fights led to a crucial health monitor and how fitness trackers are even being used to catch killers.

  Director: Declan Healy, Lyndon Bruce

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/1024 votes

  Trainer

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/15/2022

  Hannah Fry visits Ebay’s authentication centre, where they are waging war against fake high-value trainers.

  Director: Fay Finlay

  Writer: Unknown