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FAMINE
How do you measure a famine? Following the UN's recent announcement that famine conditions have ended in Somalia, More or Less examines what that really means.

Tim Harford hears from Grainne Moloney, head of the UN's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit and Professor Stephen Devereux from the Institute of Development Studies.

SLAYING A SPORTING MYTH
Muhammed Ali's boxing trainer, Angelo Dundee, was arguably one of sport's greatest behind-the-scenes figures.

But did he really deliberately tear Ali's boxing glove to win the star crucial recovery time in his 1963 fight against Sir Henry Cooper?

Tim Harford gets out his stopwatch for a simple exercise in counting.

(Producer: Ruth Alexander)

Image: Halima Hassan comforts her severely malnourished son Abdulrahman Abshir, seven months, at the Banadir hospital on in Mogadishu, Somalia. Credit: Getty Images.