Striking Numbers
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4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Striking numbers? Are the unions really on the rise again and holding the country to ransom?
The rise of the giants Are rugby players really getting biger and bigger?
Living Blue Planet Index Populations of marine mammals, birds, fish and reptiles have declined by 49% since 1970, a report says. But what does this actually mean?
Bean counter The Office for National Statistics is much maligned whether it's its data revisions, the fact that some of it statistics have been deemed not fit for purpose or that we still haven't worked out why UK productivity is so low. So George Osborne has launched a review of the economic statistics spewed out by the ONS to see where improvements can be made. Tim talks to Professor Sir Charles Bean who is conducting the review.
Banana Equivalent dose Following on from our revelation that bananas can't kill you even if you eat seven we look deeper into their radioactivity and the 'banana equivalent dose'.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, thank you for downloading more or less. |
| 0:02.5 | This is the long version of the program |
| 0:04.4 | that went out on BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:06.6 | Here's Tim Halford. |
| 0:08.6 | Hello and welcome to more or less. |
| 0:10.9 | Your weekly guide to the numbers |
| 0:12.5 | that can inform us or bamboozle us |
| 0:15.1 | in politics, sport and life. |
| 0:17.8 | This week we will ask if rugby teams are getting bigger |
| 0:20.6 | and if so, why? |
| 0:22.4 | We talk to Sir Charlie Bean |
| 0:24.4 | and ask him how he plans to shake up |
| 0:26.2 | the collection of economics data in the UK. |
| 0:29.4 | And I will warn you now |
| 0:30.7 | that the more or less banana siren will be back. |
| 0:34.2 | And were the marvillettes wrong |
| 0:37.1 | when they said that there were too many fish in the sea? |
| 0:44.1 | But first, this week MPs voted to support the trade union bill |
| 0:48.7 | which will make it tougher to hold a strike. |
| 0:51.2 | Unions, for example, will need higher turnout |
| 0:53.8 | and more notice to make a strike ballot legal |
| 0:56.6 | and there are other restrictions too. |
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