What the Dickens?

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What the Dickens?

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

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28 minutes

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Dec 24, 2010

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Boom. Bust. Bah humbug. Tim Harford narrates 'A More or Less Christmas Carol' in which British Bank plc boss Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of banking past, present and future. Will he heed their warnings?

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Dec 24, 2010

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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

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