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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

Pakistan is battling a huge natural disaster as a result of heavy monsoon rains. It?s been widely reported that a third of the country is under water. But can that really be the case? Featuring the BBC?s correspondent in Pakistan Pumza Fihlani and Dr Simon Cook, a senior lecturer in Environmental Science at the University of Dundee.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Jon Bithrey Editor: Richard Vadon Production Coordinator: Jacqui Johnson Sound Engineers: Graham Puddifoot & James Beard

(Image: aerial photograph of flooded residential areas after heavy monsoon rains in Dera Allah Yar, Balochistan province. Credit: Getty/Fida Hussain)

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Curious City - Chicago teens went to dance and find connection at Medusa’s

Medusa’s was “like a community center for weirdos and freaks and everybody else in between,” say some Chicagoans who went there as teens in the 1980s and ’90s. In this week’s episode Axios Chicago reporter Monica Eng finds out how the club got started, what it was like to hang out there and why, despite its popularity, it closed its doors in 1992.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats - Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris?s broadband claim

Devastating floods have wreaked havoc across Pakistan after the heaviest monsoon rains in at least a decade. But is a third of the country really under water, as has been claimed? Also why do electricity prices in the UK rise in line with gas prices when we get so much of our power from other sources like nuclear, wind and solar? As criminal barristers go on strike in England and Wales, we ask if those starting in the profession really earn ?12,200 a year. And as Boris Johnson waves goodbye to Downing Street, we investigate his claim that 70% of the UK now has access to gigabit broadband.

Presenter: Tim Harford Series producer: Jon Bithrey Reporters: Nathan Gower, Charlotte McDonald Production Coordinator: Jacqui Johnson Editor: Richard Vadon

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Cato Daily Podcast - Why Immigration Visa Backlogs Are Pushing This CEO and Veteran Overseas

Tech CEO and veteran Matt McGuire and his foreign-born fiancee want to get married and live in the United States. So why won't the feds even look at her application for a fiancee visa? McGuire and Cato's David Bier explain the myriad problems with the massive backlog of visa applications.

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