BBC Radio 4's 'More or Less' was an idea born of the sense that numbers were the principal language of public argument.
"There were few places where it was thought necessary to step back and think about the way we use figures - in the way we often step back to think about language. What do they really measure? What kind of truth, if any, do they capture? Yet no politician, no economist, and in recent years no doctor, teacher, chief constable or any number of others, has been able to make a case or answer one without regaling you with numbers..."
More or Less can be heard on Mondays on BBC Radio 4 at 1630BST and is presented by Tim Harford. More information here.
The BBC Radio 4 Archive is the best if you are working through the night on your thesis - "in our time" got me through some tough ones
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