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My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

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experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC

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Hello and welcome to more or less the program which takes the numbness out of numbers,

although we keep the nervous ticks in statistics.

This week we report on the much exaggerated demise of the baby name Ian.

We'll look at the link between Buckfast Tonic Wine and Crime.

Oh, and I need to tell you all about my sausage.

Believe it or not, it's 150% pork.

But first, disloyal listener Irene emailed this week to confess that she's been

two timing us. She's also been stepping out with the Freakonomics podcast.

It's okay Irene, we forgive you. The podcast included this statement.

When England lose a World Cup match, the rate of domestic abuse go up around 30%? That's disgusting.

Disgusting, if true, but is it true? That's what Irene wanted to know and it's what we'd like to know too.

The same claim was turned into a grimly memorable

poster campaign during this summer's World Cup. The poster showed a woman with

blood running from her nose that was smeared across her lips as a kind of grotesque depiction of the

cross of St George.

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