Of All The People In All The World on tour

We are very pleased to say that Of All The People In All The World (UK) will be at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the World Shakespeare Festival from April 14th to July 31st

Maximum audience of the Swan Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon 450

Chosen: because it is my favourite RSC theatre, and should be honoured, visited yesterday and you had the RST’s capacity.

Source: RSC Website and Wikipedia.

Submitted by: Greg

The Population Of Boston At The Time Of Benjamin Franklin’s Birth: 12,000

Not a spectacular statistic but if we return to the USA with the show this could be a useful element of a ‘Birth of the Nation’ story.

Source: ‘In our time’ Radio 4

Living British Olympic Gold Medalists: 114

It’s great when someone does the leg work for you on an obvious but difficult to find stat.

Source: BBC Sport

James

People Currently Working At The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant: 3000

A current statistic about a dramatic story from last year that shouldn’t be forgotten. Alongside it 16,000 people were evacuated from their homes.

Source: BBC PM Program Radio 4

James

People Sleeping Rough In England, Autumn 2011

Rough sleeping statistics are gathered by all local authorities in England counting on a single night. Last autumn the count suggested that there were 2,181 rough sleepers which is 413 more than there were in the previous year.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS

Submitted by Craig

People Who Will Go Missing In The UK Today: 548

People who will go missing today in the UK and never be found: 5

I think that over time our concern to try and be statistically / scientifically robust has moved us away from the more theatrical / poetic elements that used to inhabit the show. On the Today program (BBC Radio 4) I heard a statistic for people reported missing in the UK each year. Knowing that some people may be reported missing more than once per year we divide this number by 365 to make it more robust so maybe we can get away with “who will” rather than “Went missing last year”. The follow up stat is, of course, very upsetting.

Source: Today Program, BBC Radio 4

Submitted by: James

Professional Footballers Worldwide: 500,000

This is a statistic which we have looked for over a long period. Finally I have found something we can use. Sociologists researching homophobia in football came up with a statistic we would use in the show – if we ever used zero numbers.
Professional Footballers Worldwide 500,000
Openly Gay Professional Footballers Worldwide 0
When interrogated about the validity of the half million number they freely admitted it it was an estimate, but that they were fairly confident with it.

Source: Quoted by Dr. Jamie Cleland & Dr. Ellis Cashmore on Thinking Allowed Radio 4 20 Oct 2010. Discussing this paper.

Submitted by: James