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

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable

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

makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

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Hello and welcome to more or less your ever faithful guide to the numbers all around us in the news and in life.

This week we lock up a barrister for statistical crimes, ask whether the cost of tampons is as high as everyone seems to say, and a hundred years after some

women got the vote, we ask how many women, of course. And Jordan Dunbar will report back from

what we think may be the hardest park run in the land.

But first, crazy days on the stock market this week with shares leaping and diving like financial salmon.

But Monday the 5th of February was particularly noteworthy.

Here's the BBC's explainer video which went online on Monday night.

Wall Street had its worst day since the financial crisis today.

Another wild day of trading has just ended on Wall Street.

The Bell has just wrong ending one of the wildest days. The Dow Jones Industrial

average had its biggest single day fall ever. At close it had lost more than

1100 points which means it was... But how could it be the worst day since the financial crisis which is about 10 years ago

and also the biggest single day fall ever and was it really such a catastrophe we think this is a very misleading, not to say alarmist, piece of

reporting. Although in fairness, the BBC was hardly the only culprit.

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