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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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You may have heard Kate Lamble discussing how we count rough sleepers on the streets of the UK.

If you want to hear more of that item, it will be broadcast on this podcast feed on Monday in a bonus extended episode.

Hello and welcome to more or less the program that takes a scented eraser to the

dodgy numbers all around us while running a bright blue

highlighter over statistical truths.

This week, which is safer, giving birth at home or in a hospital.

In the News You Can Use Department, we try to count the wizard population of the UK and Ireland

based on clues in the Harry Potter books.

But first, earlier this week, High Street Stollwood W.H. Smith found itself getting a pounding

from the media.

W.H. Smith has been voted the worst shop on UK High Street by more than 10,000 people.

In the witch survey customers

complain these stores were

This grim verdict came from witch.co.

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