How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?
Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.
Are GPs really working less hours per week?
Does Wetherspoons really pay one in every Β£1000 of tax in the UK?
Are more people in the UK economically inactive?
How long does it take two rats to produce 17 octillion rats?
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Reporters: Natasha Fernandes and Bethan Ashmead-Latham
Producer: Nathan Gower
Series producer: Tom Colls
Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison
Sound mix: Sarah Hockley
Editor: Richard Vadon
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