Wesley Stevenson
speaker
1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
Wesley Stevenson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thanks for downloading this edition of More or Less.
This is the version from BBC Radio 4.
Here's Tim Harford.
It struck me that the way we use words is clearly at odds with their precision as numbers.
In particular, on TV the other day, a lightning strike on an individual was described as rare, probably 12 strikes per year, three fatal.
At the same time, something like motor neurone disease is described as a rare disease, with 5,000 sufferers and 1,500 deaths per year.
What does rarity really mean?
Rats laugh.
Rats laugh is basically... They love Jerry Lewis movies.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Nine.
More or Less was presented by Tim Harford, the Financial Times undercover economist.
The producer was Wesley Stevenson and the editor was Richard Varden.
The programme is made in association with The Open University.
Peter Harvey sent us a letter from Perth in Australia to ask us this very question, and he also says...
But is he?
Or can we?
Aye, that's right.
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It was the Yorkshire Post that first drew attention to Yorkshire's successes.
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After Alistair Brownlee won gold in the triathlon on Tuesday, they said that competitors from the county have now won five golds, representing almost a quarter of Team GB's total gold haul.
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