WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is one of Australia’s most popular television series and has been broadcast in 172 territories worldwide. Set in 1920’s Melbourne the series’ protagonist, Miss Phryne Fisher, seems to have a lot of dead bodies on her metaphorical plate. So how does the series compare with the real life murder rate at that time? Join the More Or Less team as we step back in time for some statistical sleuthing.
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| 0:00.0 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:04.6 | My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:08.4 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable |
| 0:14.3 | experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC |
| 0:20.4 | makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
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| 0:36.2 | Hello and welcome to more or less, a stats program that tries to think of an amusing top line for every episode no matter how laboured it sounds. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Charlotte McDonald and I'm Lizzie McNeil. |
| 0:48.3 | When the more or less team aren't bevering away at keyboards or in studios, frantically crunching numbers and practicing |
| 0:55.1 | pedantry, we like to go back to our various abodes, get into loungewear of choice |
| 0:59.6 | and watch some good old murder mysteries. You may have heard as mentioning this a few years ago |
| 1:04.6 | when Charlotte looked at the murder rate in British favourite |
| 1:07.3 | Midsummer murders. |
| 1:08.6 | The series follows Inspector Barnaby who tries to solve a murder, |
| 1:12.0 | or a couple of murders, sometimes even three murders in |
| 1:15.1 | Adyllic villages within a fictional English county. |
| 1:20.0 | The young Lou isn't the first person to notice the high murder rate in |
| 1:23.0 | Midsummer. There are on average around 2.6 murders per episode and around 8 |
| 1:27.7 | episodes a year. Mid-summer is a county, so if we assume that |
| 1:31.5 | Inspector Barnaby investigate every murder in the county, |
| 1:35.0 | 21 people get bumped off there every year. |
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