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Hello and welcome to more or less, the programme that kisses bruised numbers better

and sends them off smiling with a sticking plaster and a

lollipop. This week we look at a new way of asking how much a family needs to

spend in order to get by and I wonder whether I'm about to be replaced by a fact-checking robot.

But first, concerning Hobbits. The other day a colleague and I went on a rather nerdy quest which is the best kind of quest.

Our destination, The Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, to see an exhibition of the life

and work of Oxford Don and best-selling fantasy novelist J. R.R. Tolkien.

The whole exhibition is novelist J. R.R. Tolkien.

The whole exhibition is amazing.

So this is Tolkien's student life, his time in the trenches, the First World War, his wife Edith.

Hobbit Long Measures?

Oh, so that's Hobbit Unit.

Yes, Hobbit Imperial.

One nail, three nails equals one toe, six toes

equals one foot, three feet equals one step or an L six feet equals one. Ah we had fun. As you can guess, I'm a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings.

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