More or Less, Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

More or Less

Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

22 June 2022

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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