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Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Jun 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Is the government really spending a billion pounds on the Jubilee, as some have claimed? We investigate some of the facts and figures around this week’s commemorations. We also ask why energy bills are becoming so high in the UK when we actually have plenty of gas, and we unpack the mystery of measuring fuel poverty. Plus after the Texas school shooting we investigate the statistics around gun deaths in the US.

And finally we hear about the joys and perplexities of imperial measures with Hannah Fry and Matt Parker.
Released:
Jun 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4