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Hello and welcome to Six Minute English, I'm Neil.
And I'm Catherine.
Catherine, what's the connection between hierarchies, managers, and chickens?
Well, I don't know Neil, but I'm sure you're going to tell me.
First of all, could you explain for our listeners what a hierarchy is?
Of course, a hierarchy is a way of organizing people.
For example, in a company where there are people working at different levels,
you've got bosses, managers, and workers.
The workers do the work, and the managers have meetings that stop the workers doing the work.
But where do the chickens come in?
We'll find out shortly, but first here is today's question.
And it is, surprise surprise, about chickens.
What is the record number of eggs laid by one chicken in a year?
Is it A, 253, B, 371, or C, 426?
What do you think, Catherine?
Well, I think most chickens lay an egg once a day, so I think it's 371.
Well, we will have an answer later in the program.
Now, for hierarchies and chickens, in the radio program, the joy of nine to five produced by something else for the BBC, entrepreneur Margaret Heffanon described an experiment.