Angela Saini
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229 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2012
last heard Jul 2012
Angela Saini’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The producer was Richard Knight and the editor, Richard Varden.
Next week, regular presenter Tim Harford is back after a curiously long holiday on the island of Palau.
So from me, it's goodbye.
You've downloaded more or less a lone statistical sloop adrift on a sea of nonsense.
In this week's episode we're talking blockbuster movies and killer birthdays.
For the next 10 minutes, you're with more or less the Numbers programme.
Well, I say Numbers programme, but we're so much more than that.
In fact, this is how the head of the BBC World Service described our creation.
Movie fans might notice that this also happens to be how Samuel L. Jackson's character in the blockbuster movie The Avengers described the creation of S.H.I.E.L.D., a shadowy crime-fighting agency that makes use of superheroes like Iron Man and the Hulk.
This programme's not all that different.
I'm Angela Saini, or if you prefer, Statwoman.
And if you recognise that clip from The Avengers, you're certainly not alone.
When it came out earlier this year, it set a new record in America for box office takings over an opening weekend.
And it's already the third highest grossing film of all time in the whole world, even though it hasn't been released everywhere yet.
But how impressed should we be by that?
After all, the prices of most things, including cinema tickets, go up over time.
So we should expect films to make more and more in dollar amounts, just as we should expect a steady stream of new records for the highest-earning company or the most expensive painting sold at auction.
So a better question might be this.
What's the highest-grossing film of all time if you adjust for inflation?
That's a question we asked our reporter Charlotte MacDonald to investigate.
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