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To wrap up our first season, we bring you a conversation recorded at our first ever live show at the Tribeca Film Festival. We discuss Oprah’s career in film, as actress and producer, from The Color Purple to The Butler.
Special Guest: Wesley Morris, culture critic for The New York Times and co-host of “Still Processing.”
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Producer Nina Earnest, Executive Producer Jody Avirgan. Artwork by Jonathan Conda.
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Do rail workers really earn ?13,000 a year more than nurses? As rail strikes severely hit services we look at some of the claims being made around pay ? and explain how you can measure average pay in different ways.
Plus we investigate claims that Chancellor Rishi Sunak wasted ?11bn by paying too much interest on Britain?s national debt.
Is pollution from tyres really 2000 times worse than pollution from exhausts?
And we look at sex and statistics in America.
Produced in partnership with the Open University.
Credits: Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Charlotte McDonald Reporters: Nathan Gower, Jon Bithrey Production Coordinator: Janet Staples Sound Engineer: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon
Rob looks back at The Verve’s “Bitter Sweet Symphony” and the band's legal battles over royalties owed to The Rolling Stones.
Host: Rob Harvilla
Guest: Niko Stratis
Producers: Jonathan Kermah and Justin Sayles
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Magazine articles and advice columns are commonly littered with spurious statistics about how much sex we?re having. So how much do we really know ? and what are the difficulties of collecting information about such an intimate part of our lives?
Doctor Marina Adshade from the Vancouver School of Economics, who specialises in the economics of sex and love, answers questions posed by a curious More or Less listener in Japan.