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we've got drama and even comedy experts.

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Hello and welcome to more or less with me, Tim Harford.

We've made it.

It's the end of the series, perfectly time to coincide with the end of the electoral cycle, almost like it was planned,

which it definitely wasn't. This was pretty obviously the least planned election campaign in living memory. This week at 10 o'clock on election night

the exit poll result will be published. We talk to the people behind the poll and

investigate the secret of their successful

predictions over the years.

Culling NHS managers to save money seems to be a popular idea and more than one party

has suggested it.

But what's the evidence that the NHS has too many managers rather than too few?

Tic-Tockers are looking for a man in finance, how many men are there who fit the bill,

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