What happens when you empty the refrigerator of everything that didn’t quite make it into the last series of the Rock Bottom Data Feed? You make stew. This compilation episode serves up the leftovers from Series 4: behind-the-scenes production conversations, outtakes, extended conversations with guests, and a few stories that were simply too good to leave on the cutting-room floor.

We revisit the history of Bradshaw’s Guide and the surprisingly contentious business of railway timetables, explore what data management looks like from perspectives outside the traditional data world, and dig into a bigger question that has been a recurring theme of the podcast: data is about people, society, and the ways technology changes how we live. There’s also a fascinating discussion about turning data into sound, the human consequences of data breaches, and why every row in a database may represent somebody’s life, experience, or secret.

And then there’s the other stuff.

Production sausage-making. Southern farewells. LEGO. A few questionable jokes. And one particularly memorable Victorian-era concern about the effect of high-speed rail travel on the human anatomy.

In other words, everything you might expect from the Rock Bottom Data Feed when nobody is watching the clock.

Series 4 is officially in the refrigerator. Series 5 is ready to cook.

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Chapters:

00:00 – Introduction; 02:17 – Extras and Outtakes; 38:01 – Recap & Close