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More or Less: Behind the Stats - How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years

Tim Harford makes sense of the numbers being used in the political battle about the UK and its membership of the EU. And, he looks at whether it?s true that more war veterans kill themselves than die in combat ; why you could well be a descendant of Richard III; and what Margaret Thatcher?s funeral really cost. Plus, is it true that one dog year equals seven human years? Tim unveils the More or Less Dogulator.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - The Maths of Mozart and Birds

Birds + windows =? The BBC Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2 million birds die crashing into window panes every day in the US. Tim Harford finds this, well, unbelievable. Marcus du Sautoy explores the maths in Mozart's The Magic Flute; a student who uncovered a mistake in a famous economic paper, which has been used to make the case for austerity cuts, explains how he did it.

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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher

Birds + windows =? The BBC Quiz show The Unbelievable Truth reckons that more than 2 million birds die crashing into window panes every day in the US. Tim Harford finds this, well, unbelievable. Marcus du Sautoy explores the maths in Mozart's The Magic Flute; a student who uncovered a mistake in a famous economic paper, which has been used to make the case for austerity cuts, explains how he did it; and separating fact from fiction about Margaret Thatcher with a look at the numbers of her time in office.