Before this BBC podcast kicks off, I'd like to tell you about some others you might enjoy.

My name's Will Wilkin and I Commission Music Podcast for the BBC.

It's a really cool job, but every day we get to tell the incredible stories behind songs,

moments and movements, stories of struggle and success, rises and falls, the funny, the ridiculous.

And the BBC's position, at the heart of British music

means we can tell those stories like no one else.

We were, are and always will be right there

at the centre of the narrative.

So whether you want an insightful take on music right now

or a nostalgic deep dive into some of the most famous

and infamous moments in music,

check out the music podcasts on BBC Sounds.

Hello and thank you for downloading the more or less podcast. We are your weekly guide to the

numbers in the news and in life. And I'm Tim Harford.

We don't often do God on this program, but loyal listener David Rook got in touch from Oslo

to ask about a claim that he heard on a BBC radio broadcast. Not a theological claim, but a

statistical one. The speaker here is the Reverend Lucy Winkert.

Around 85% of the world's population practice a religion.

Can that really be true? asks David. Do 85% of the world's population practice a religion?

To understand this number, we went straight to the source.

Conrad Hackett leads a team at the Pew Research Center

which studies the demography of religion around the world.

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