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Hello and welcome to more or less, the programme which is always ready to sit down and

chat with numbers over a nice cup of cocoa. This week our loyal listeners have

been counting up statues of goats for us and from goats to the

goat the greatest of all times Serena Williams but was she right to say that male

tennis players have punished less harshly than women The statistics seem to show that schools are

getting better, are they? But first, earlier in the year, listener Sean Clarkson got

in touch after watching BBC II's Horizon episode about stopping male suicide

presented by Dr Zand Van Telekin.

The hard fact is that suicide kills more men under the age of 50 than anything else, more than car accidents, more than cancer.

According to the statistics, the most likely thing to kill me is me.

Sean wasn't sure about that turn of phrase and neither are we.

Dr. Van Dalekun is 40 and so the most likely thing to kill him is well nothing at all for now

and then heart disease, but not for decades yet.

But what Zand is trying to say is a widespread claim, and one which our researcher Beth and

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