Rinsed: 5. The Camel's Humps
From Understand by BBC Radio 4
May 25, 2026 · 15 min · Season 11 · Episode 5
About this episode
Peter Hammond discusses the balance of rivers and exposes a national scandal related to environmental issues.
Rivers work when everything is in balance, but what happens when things are thrown off course? Peter Hammond draws on his past as an academic specialising in machine learning to spot a problem everyone else has missed and expose what he believes is a national scandal.
People in this episode
Guest: Peter Hammond
Topics covered
- rivers
- balance
- machine learning
- national scandal
- environmental issues
Keywords
- rivers
- machine learning
- environment
- national scandal
- Peter Hammond
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