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The Thought Show: 100 Year Floods

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Flooding in Paris in 1910

17/12/2015 GMT

100 Year Floods

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More Or Less investigates whether “100 year floods” only happen once a century

More Or Less investigates how often “100 year floods” happen, BBC Trending asks if College “Party” App Yeti encourages crime and the Why Factor looks at why we wear skirts

In More Or Less, Ruth Alexander and Wesley Stephenson investigate whether so-called ‘100 year floods’ only happen once a century and ask if it’s true breathing the air in Beijing causes as much damage as smoking 40 cigarettes a day.

BBC Trending reports on an alleged sexual assault which surfaced through the controversial social network Yeti – Campus Stories, also dubbed a college ‘party’ app. How does it work, and why are so many students using it to upload illicit material? And – a video that suggests an Egyptian man died after being tortured by police has been widely shared on Facebook. It’s the latest in a spate of recent deaths that have spurred people to speak out against the government on social media. 

And in the The Why Factor Mike Williams looks at the meaning of wearing a skirt – a garment  which throughout centuries has had social meaning, including the liberation and oppression of women. The programme includes an interview with Jung Chang, author of the bestselling “Wild Swans”, who describes how it was dangerous to wear a skirt during the Cultural Revolution.

(Image: Flooding in Paris in 1910. Credit: Getty)

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