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Last broadcast on Sun, 1 Jan 2012, 20:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
The year in numbers - people name and discuss the number which they found to be the most revealing or surprising. Plus, does probability really exist.
Contributors: David Spiegelhalter, Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University; Owen Spottiswoode, Fullfact.org; Tracey Brown from Sense about Science; Jil Matheson, UK Statistics Authority; George Monbiot; Sir Mark Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust; Money Box presenter Paul Lewis; Sports Statistician, Robert Mastrodomenico; Dr Linda Yeuh Economics Correspondent at Bloomberg; Stand up Mathematician Matt Parker.
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Author of Adapt; Undercover Economist at the FT; presenter of More or Less, Radio 4.
Broadcasts
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Fri 30 Dec 201116:30
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Sun 1 Jan 201220:00
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