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Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

14/01/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Thought Show, Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

More Or Less hears why Americans should take more time off.

More Or Less hears why Americans should take more time off, a black Saudi woman tells BBC Trending how she deals with racist abuse online and the Why Factor looks at hypocrisy.

In More Or Less, Tim Harford hears that a failure to take time off is preventing some Americans from being creative. And he looks back over some of the numbers that made the news in 2015 with author and broadcaster Farai Chideya, former footballer Graeme le Saux, and BBC cricket statistician Andrew Samson.

BBC Trending talks to Nawal Al-Hawsawi, a black Saudi woman who’s received racist abuse online for tweeting about her support for inter-racial relationships. She’s been called the “Rosa Parks” of Saudi Arabia for her campaigning against racism. And the makers of a viral video criticising Facebook’s plans to bring ‘free internet’ to those without access in rural India explain their objections. 

And in the Why Factor, Mike Williams asks how far hypocrisy is part of the human condition. No-one likes a hypocrite, yet most of us are hypocritical to some degree. So why do we profess one thing but do another? And what would a world be like without it? 

(Photo: Days marked on a calendar as a holiday crossed and a word postponed written over it. Credit: Shutterstock)

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