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Numbers of 2012

Tim Harford presents a guide to 2012 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year, as discussed by More or Less interviewees.

A guide to 2012 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year discussed by More or Less interviewees.

Contributors: Robert Peston, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Business Editor; Dr Pippa Wells, physicist at CERN; Bill Edgar, author of Back of the Net One Hundred Golden Goals; John Rodda, Hydrologist; Gabriella Lebrecht, sports analyst at Decision Technology; Helen Joyce, Brazil correspondent for The Economist; Jack Straw, Member of Parliament for Blackburn; Jil Matheson, the UK's National Statistician; Dr James Grime, from the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge; Gillian Tett, columnist and assistant editor of the Financial Times; David Spiegelhalter, Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University

Presenter: Tim Harford.
Producer: Charlotte Pritchard.

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25 minutes

Last on

Sun 30 Dec 2012 20:00

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  • Fri 28 Dec 2012 16:30
  • Sun 30 Dec 2012 20:00

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