Angela Saini
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229 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2012
last heard Jul 2012
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You can listen to that edition or download the podcast on our website, bbcworldservice.com slash more or less.
Our email address is more or less at bbc.co.uk.
That was More or Less, first broadcast on the BBC World Service with me, Angela Saini.
The producer was Ruth Alexander and the editor, Richard Varden.
This is More or Less.
This week we're looking at the statistically unlikely world of coincidences.
Hello and welcome to More or Less, the numbers programme on the BBC World Service.
Today, as you've no doubt noticed, we have zero Tim Harfords in the studio.
I'm Angela Saini, standing in for Tim while he takes a well-deserved break.
It just happens to be a coincidence that I was available.
Or was it?
What if I hadn't been available?
Maybe it would have been more of a coincidence if we'd both been on holiday at the same time.
Yes, you've guessed the theme of today's edition.
And our journey through the statistically unlikely world of coincidence begins by looking at chance encounters, inspired by this question from listener Ken.
Ken, your friends aren't the only ones.
In fact, the same thing happened to me once when I was in a cafe in New Delhi.
I was ordering a drink when standing right next to me was a friend I knew from thousands of miles away in London.
And then there was a time that more or less itself was struck with a case of synchronicity.
A listener from Malawi called Sam emailed the programme with a question.
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