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How less can often be more

Listeners put their comments to Tim Harford, host of numbers show More Or Less. Plus evidence of listener power: how a complaint prompted the BBC WS to install a new transmitter!

More or Less is the a show that explains and sometimes debunks, the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.
Listeners put their comments to the programme’s host Tim Harford. Plus, evidence of listener power, when a complaint from Mozambique prompted the BBC World Service to install a brand new transmitter!

Producer Howard Shannon
Presenter Rajan Datar

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Mon 24 Jan 202203:50GMT
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