WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying
More or Less
BBC
4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2014
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
After three tragic airline incidents in eight days, is flying becoming more dangerous? Wesley Stephenson looks at the statistics behind air travel to find out? And which is the most successful nation in Commonwealth Games history? Australia, Canada, England – not even close. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the short edition of Morales. |
| 0:02.0 | First broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
| 0:09.0 | The details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use |
| 0:13.0 | go to BBCWorldService.com slash podcasts. |
| 0:16.0 | Music |
| 0:28.0 | Flower of Scotland welcoming you to another edition of More or Less |
| 0:32.0 | on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Wesley Stevenson. |
| 0:36.0 | It comes as the world. |
| 0:37.0 | Well, some of the world at least has been focused on Glasgow |
| 0:40.0 | for the Commonwealth Games, which for those of you in the |
| 0:43.0 | two-thirds of the world that aren't competing is a kind of |
| 0:46.0 | mini Olympics for countries who were once in the British |
| 0:49.0 | Empire. |
| 0:50.0 | Now it might sound a bit niche to those not involved, but |
| 0:53.0 | whether sport, there's numbers. |
| 0:55.0 | And we wondered who was the most successful Commonwealth |
| 0:58.0 | nation. |
| 0:59.0 | Canada, Australia, India perhaps, not even close. |
| 1:03.0 | But I'm not going to tell you who it is yet. |
| 1:05.0 | You'll have to wait. |
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