Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk
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BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2013
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
As Angelina Jolie announces that an 87% cancer risk has prompted her to have a double mastectomy, Tim Harford assesses the probabilities associated with the disease. Plus, has the UK been hit by a Romanian crime wave? Also in the programme: Education Secretary Michael Gove’s use of PR surveys; and why the UK’s poor growth has not had led to the high levels of unemployment that economists would expect.
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| 1:18.5 | This is the version of the programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on the 17th of May 2013. |
| 1:25.0 | Here's Tim Harford. |
| 1:26.7 | Hello and welcome to more or less, melting the statistical chocolate chips in the |
| 1:31.6 | great news cookie of life. This week, we try to unravel the mystery of the UK unemployment |
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