Global Wealth
More Or Less checks out who belongs to the world鈥檚 wealthiest 茅lite, Trending talks to a Kenyan blogger arrested for speaking out and the Why Factor asks why we fly flags.
More Or Less, presented by Tim Harford, asks who belongs to the world鈥檚 wealthiest one per cent and where do they live? And which are the world鈥檚 best and worst board games? Oliver Roeder, a senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, says a statistical analysis can tell us.
Trending continues its series of free speech reports with an interview with the influential anti-corruption blogger, Abraham Mutai, who was arrested in Kenya, there鈥檚 news of a disagreement in the Le Pen family in France over the sharing of a controversial video and presenter Mukul Devichand follows the trend for sharing wedding crashing stories by revealing his own.
In the Why Factor, Mike Williams looks at our reasons for flying flags as potent symbols of nationhood, badges of identity and useful signals for ships.
(Photo: World map made of money. Credit: Shutterstock)
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