Wesley Stevenson
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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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Well, yeah, that's a very good question.
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But what looking at long hours misses completely is a really important question of what all those long hours are actually producing.
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And a rough and ready way of doing that is to divide GDP, that's the country's entire production, by the number of workers.
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And?
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And despite working fewer hours, the average German worker is more productive than a Greek.
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By this method, Germany ranks eighth most productive by worker out of the OECD countries, while Greece drops down to 24th.
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Well, thank you, Wes.
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Yeah, they're all good questions.
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You may remember when we calculated this last week, we said that each kilometre travelled by each passenger on the Greek railways cost around 75 US cents in subsidies.
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And a taxi costs around $1.55 per kilometre, but based on one traveller in each cab.
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So what if we used the listener's suggestions?
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Well, I decided we needed a new quote, so I called our friendly Greek cab driver, Greg, Mr Taxi in Thessaloniki, to get another quote.
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Hello?
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Oh, hello, is that Greg?
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Hi there, Greg.
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It's Wesley here from the BBC in London.
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How are you?
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I've got another quote for you, if that's possible.
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Last time you said it would be 700 euros to travel from Thessaloniki to Athens.
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So you can get four passengers in your cab, and would the price be the same?
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