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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Predicting L’Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?
This week six scientists and one ex-government official were sentenced to prison for multiple manslaughter following the L?Aquila earthquake in Italy. Part of the case against them was the falsely reassuring comments they made before the earthquake struck. Will this deter scientists from giving advice in the future?
Start the Week - Torture, terrorism and secrets
On Start the Week the journalist Ian Cobain reveals how torture has been systematically used by the British from WWII to the War on Terror, via Kenya and Northern Ireland. David Anderson QC reviews the risks posed by terrorism in the UK. Extraordinary rendition and the language of concealment form the heart of Clare Bayley's new play, and there are more secrets uncovered by the criminal barrister-turned-crime writer, MR Hall. Producer: Katy Hickman.
Cato Daily Podcast - Herbert Hoover versus ‘Laissez Faire’
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Cato Daily Podcast - More ‘Get Tough’ Campaign Trade Rhetoric
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Curious City - Chuh Kaw Go, What Do You Really Sound Like?
What is a Chicago accent and what do Chicagoans really sound like? Sound off with your phone and become part of the linguistic record.
Curious City - Chuh Kaw Go, What Do You Really Sound Like?
What is a Chicago accent and what do Chicagoans really sound like? Sound off with your phone and become part of the linguistic record.
Cato Daily Podcast - How Not to Deal with Iran
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Life-saving economics
Professor Al Roth tells Tim Harford about the work for which he has just been awarded the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Start the Week - Modernism with Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson
On Start the Week Andrew Marr looks at the legacy of modernism. Kevin Jackson returns to 1922, the year he argues changed the literary world with publications of Joyce's Ulysses and TS Eliot's The Waste Land. And Ali Smith reveals how her writing today melds different forms to explore style, love, death and the art of writing. But Will Gompertz and the composer Julian Anderson argue that art and music respectively embraced modernism earlier and more profoundly than the world of literature. Producer: Katy Hickman.