Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
Charlotte MacDonald’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But just for comparison, a similar survey of school kids is carried out in the US.
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And there, only 23% of students say they used cannabis in the last month.
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Yeah, they're not too pleased about it.
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I put the statistics to Emery Wente.
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He's a director for the Ministry of Education on Palau.
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Mr Wente told me that although there's only one state high school in Palau, there are some private schools, which together have broadly similar number of students as the state school.
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He thinks cannabis use might be lower in the private schools.
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He also pointed out, as we have done, that the sample was small and that teenage behaviour might well differ from that of older adults.
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Actually, my quest was a lot easier than you might think, because there's one film which everyone in Movie Land seems to agree is the highest earner of all time, if you adjust for inflation.
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Yes, it's Gone With The Wind, starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh.
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According to Guinness World Records, it's made over $5 billion worldwide at today's prices.
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But how confident can we be about that number?
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I mean, the film was released over 70 years ago.
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Well, that is a good question.
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And I asked Guinness World Records for that evidence, and they couldn't, or at least they didn't, provide any.
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So I decided to change my quest.
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Wait a minute, are you allowed to do that?
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It's a plot twist.
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OK, go ahead.
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