4.2 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello Tim Harford here, I'm the undercover economist, the presenter of Radio 4's More or |
0:07.0 | Less and more pertently right now, the host of a new Radio 4 podcast, Understand The Economy. |
0:16.3 | Each episode I'll help cut to the fog of financial jargon to bring you to the crisp, bright |
0:21.4 | daylight of understanding the world around us. |
0:24.4 | If you don't really understand what inflation is, why mortgage rates have shot up or what |
0:29.8 | that GDP thing stands for, this is the podcast for you. |
0:34.6 | That's Understand The Economy, available now on BBC Sounds. |
0:39.8 | Hello, I'm Emma Barnett and welcome to Woman's R from BBC Radio 4. |
0:51.2 | Good morning and welcome to the programme. |
0:53.5 | You know those discoveries about women, something perhaps we've been thinking is the case |
0:57.2 | and then turns out to be completely different simply because no research was done or no |
1:02.3 | adequate research. |
1:03.3 | Well, I have one of those for you today because it turns out scientists have recently discovered |
1:08.4 | that the clitoris has 10,000 nerve endings, not 8,000 as originally thought. |
1:14.8 | Why this update? |
1:16.4 | Because new research has actually been performed on women as opposed to cows, a kid you |
1:21.3 | not, and that's the study the earlier figure was relying on and it was from the 70s. |
1:26.2 | Well, guess into the science in more detail later in the programme, but I did want to ask |
1:30.4 | you today, with new information still coming to light about major parts of women's bodies |
1:35.0 | and so much research still yet to do. |
1:37.8 | How did you first learn about the clitoris? |
1:40.7 | Was it a word you heard from someone? |
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