''More or Less'' is an investigative

BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasti ...

programme about the accuracy of numbers and statistics in the public domain. The programme often addresses statistical issues which pertain to topics in the news. The programme was created in 2001 by

Michael Blastland Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) ( ...

as a one-off series of six programmes presented by

Andrew Dilnot Sir Andrew William Dilnot, (born 19 June 1960) is a British economist and broadcaster. He was director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002, and principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford from 2002 to 2012, and Warden of Nuffield ...

. The positive response to the show led to its becoming a regular programme, first with two series a year and since the winter series of 2008–2009, with three. As well as the 30-minute Radio 4 programme, there is also a nine-minute

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edition that runs throughout the year. Both versions appear in the programme's podcast stream. The World Service edition either repeats an item from Radio 4 or has original material (usually when the Radio 4 show is off air). The programme is normally broadcast (as at September 2020) 9:02 to 9:30am on Wednesday. In 2007, Blastland and Dilnot published a related book, ''

The Tiger That Isn't ''The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers'' is a statistics book written by Michael Blastland and Andrew Dilnot, the creator and presenter of BBC Radio 4's ''More or Less (radio programme), More or Less''. Like the radio show, it ...

: Seeing Through a World of Numbers'' about misuse of statistics. Guests of the show have included

Angus Deaton Sir Angus Stewart Deaton (born 19 October 1945) is a British-American economist and academic. Deaton is currently a Senior Scholar and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs Emeritus at the Princeton School ...

, Mark Lynas,

Hannah Ritchie Hannah Ritchie (born 1993 in Falkirk) is a Scottish data scientist, senior researcher at the University of Oxford in the Oxford Martin School, and deputy editor at ''Our World in Data''. Her work focuses on sustainability, in relation to clima ...

, and

Richard Blundell Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA (born 1 May 1952 in Shoreham-by-Sea) is a British economist and econometrician. Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of University College London and ...

. Since October 2007 the show has been presented by Tim Harford.

Awards

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's 2010 award for statistical excellence in broadcast journalism * Mensa's award for promoting intelligence in public lifeMore or Less Honoured
Accessed 5 June 2010

References

External links

The show's website
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