How old is your dog?
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2013
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It's often said that one dog year equals seven human years. But is it true? Tim Harford and Ben Carter unveil the More or Less Dogulator. Plus, 15 distant relatives of England’s King Richard III are petitioning the High Court about where the king should be buried. Some reporting has implied that the famous 15 are almost the only descendants of Richard III who exist. But mathematician Rob Eastaway figures out how many other relatives of Richard III might actually be out there.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, |
| 0:07.0 | go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Ruth Alexander and here's Ben Carter. |
| 0:19.0 | Football fans are often accusing rival sides of being one-man teams. |
| 0:24.0 | The implication being that the club spent vast sums of money on one star player |
| 0:29.0 | who drives the team up the table. |
| 0:31.0 | But is there really anything in this? |
| 0:33.0 | Ben, you're a Manchester United fan. |
| 0:35.0 | Your side were a one-man team this season, weren't they? |
| 0:38.0 | No. |
| 0:39.0 | But that's not what the manager of your big rivals Manchester City reckons. |
| 0:42.0 | True. At the beginning of the season, Roberto Mancini said, |
| 0:45.0 | we would win the title back because we'd signed Striker Robin Van Persi from Arsenal. |
| 0:50.0 | And you have, indeed, just won the league. |
| 0:52.0 | Yes, Van Persi scored 24 goals and all, |
| 0:55.0 | and it was his hat trick that clinched it the title. |
| 0:58.0 | But you know United would still be top of the table, |
| 1:01.0 | even if Van Persi hadn't scored any goals. |
| 1:04.0 | But I think a man United fan would say that, wouldn't you? |
| 1:07.0 | Well, yes, but this is more or less. |
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