BBC Radio 4 - More or Less
More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news. Numbers are used in every area of public debate. But are they always reliable? Tim and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. A half-hour programme broadcast at 1600 on Friday afternoons and repeated at 2000 on Sundays on Radio 4. BBC World Service broadcasts a short edition over the weekend.
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MoreOrLess: Troubled families and unneutered cats. (R4) 18 May 12
Troubled families, nursing numbers and the mathematical consequences of unneutered cats.
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MoreOrLess: Trouble on the Greek railways (WS) 11 May 12
Would it be cheaper to send every Greek rail passenger by taxi instead? This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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MoreOrLess: Are CEOs worth it? (R4) 11 May 12
Executive pay, chess and trouble on the Greek railway.
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MoreOrLess: A grand economic experiment? (WS) 04 May 12
Are we witnessing a grand economic experiment being played out between Europe, trying to cut its way out of trouble, and the United States, trying to spend its way to redemption? Plus, we investigate the height of North Koreans. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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MoreOrLess: Austerity, border queues and bank holidays (R4) 04 May 12
Are we witnessing a grand economic experiment playing out between Britain and the United States? How long have travellers been waiting to get through immigration at Heathrow? Plus, are you going to destroy the economy this bank holiday weekend?