
Description
A guide to 2012 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year discussed by More or Less interviewees. Contributors: Robert Peston, BBC's Business Editor; D...r Pippa Wells, physicist at CERN; Bill Edgar, author of Back of the Net One Hundred Golden Goals; John Rodda, Hydrologist; Gabriella Lebrecht, sports analyst at Decision Technology; Helen Joyce, Brazil correspondent for The Economist; Jack Straw, Member of Parliament for Blackburn; Jil Matheson, the UK's National Statistician; Dr James Grime, from the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge; Gillian Tett, columnist and assistant editor of the Financial Times; David Spiegelhalter, Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University
A guide to 2012 in numbers - the most informative, interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year discussed by More or Less interviewees. Contributors: Robert Peston, BBC's Business Editor; D...r Pippa Wells, physicist at CERN; Bill Edgar, author of Back of the Net One Hundred Golden Goals; John Rodda, Hydrologist; Gabriella Lebrecht, sports analyst at Decision Technology; Helen Joyce, Brazil correspondent for The Economist; Jack Straw, Member of Parliament for Blackburn; Jil Matheson, the UK's National Statistician; Dr James Grime, from the Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge; Gillian Tett, columnist and assistant editor of the Financial Times; David Spiegelhalter, Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University
Series: | More or less |
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Episode | 6 |
First transmission date: | 2012-12-22 |
Original broadcast channel: | BBC Radio 4 |
Published: | 2012 |
Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
Duration: | 00:25:00 |
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Producer: | Charlotte Pritchard |
Presenter: | Tim Harford |
Contributors: | Tim Harford; Robert Peston; Pippa Wells; Bill Edgar; John Rodda; Helen Joyce; Jack Straw; Jill Matheson; James Grime; Gillian Tett; David Spiegelhalter |
Publisher: | BBC Open University |
Subject terms: | Economics; Mathematics; Statistics |
Production number: | AUDA783B |
Available to public: | no |