Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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Is it central London or...?
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Yes, and while this is a very expansive definition of London, the French actually draw a very tight boundary around their own cities.
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It excludes a lot of the suburbs.
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even if you use the figures that the French embassy gave us, London is still only the 23rd biggest French city, which doesn't make for a sexy headline.
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It's true that the unemployment rate is lower than in France, but are taxes really lower in the UK?
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Eric Albert of the French newspaper Le Monde has been looking into this.
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The European Parliament is co-decider with the member states on European laws.
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And European laws then are integrated into national laws in the member states.
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So 70% of the laws in this country are made co-decided by the European Parliament.
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Mr Abbott says they're now focusing on an area of around 23,000 square miles, which is almost three quarters of the size of Scotland.
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The plane could be nearly three miles below the surface.
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In the spring of 1943, the Second World War was raging and German U-boats were sinking ships in the Atlantic.
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Desperate to find the submarines before they could strike, the Americans and British developed a model to find them using what's called Bayesian statistics, named after an 18th century British Presbyterian minister called Thomas Bayes.
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They then devised a method of assigning a probability to each scenario to work out the most probable location of the submarines, adapting their model as they went.
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Today, those methods are still being used to find everything from missing people to missing planes.
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But the relatives of those on the plane still didn't know why their loved ones had died.
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They didn't know why the plane had crashed.
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That question could only be answered by finding the black box and the cockpit voice recorder.
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At this point, the French authority responsible for investigating aviation accidents, the BEA, made a call to a group of statisticians in the US.
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Colleen Keller went out to France to help the search.
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