Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat
June 7, 2023
28:42
A short history of data
June 3, 2023
9:48
Food prices, net migration and beef about beef
May 31, 2023
30:02
Are young people more single than ever before?
May 28, 2023
8:58
NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce
May 24, 2023
28:35
Detecting Bad Science with Data
May 20, 2023
10:26
Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?
May 13, 2023
10:21
Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?
May 6, 2023
How much is the Coronation crown worth?
April 29, 2023
10:24
The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News
April 22, 2023
9:42
How accurate is baby's due date?
April 15, 2023
10:19
How to better understand and explain numbers
April 8, 2023
10:25
A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?
April 1, 2023
Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage
March 25, 2023
9:52
Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run
March 18, 2023
Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?
March 11, 2023
8:57
Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?
March 4, 2023
10:11
UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?
March 1, 2023
28:34
Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
Feb. 25, 2023
10:47
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
Feb. 22, 2023
29:02
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
Feb. 18, 2023
10:39
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
Feb. 15, 2023
28:40
Spreadsheet disasters
Feb. 11, 2023
10:13
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
Feb. 8, 2023
28:38
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
Feb. 4, 2023
9:44
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
Feb. 1, 2023
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
Jan. 28, 2023
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
Jan. 25, 2023
28:18
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
Jan. 21, 2023
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
Jan. 18, 2023
29:16
How we shook the world of very large numbers
Jan. 14, 2023
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
Jan. 11, 2023
28:59
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
Jan. 7, 2023
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
Dec. 31, 2022
10:34
Numbers of the Year 2022
Dec. 24, 2022
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
Dec. 17, 2022
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
Dec. 10, 2022
8:59
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
Dec. 3, 2022
10:06
When do food shortages become a famine?
Nov. 26, 2022
A $220 billion World Cup?
Nov. 19, 2022
Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy
Nov. 14, 2022
14:32
Improving the numbers in the news
Nov. 12, 2022
Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon
Nov. 5, 2022
Can China’s GDP data be trusted?
Oct. 29, 2022
Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?
Oct. 22, 2022
Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking
Oct. 15, 2022
10:04
Catching Chess Cheats with Data
Oct. 8, 2022
Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities
Oct. 7, 2022
28:28
NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?
Oct. 1, 2022
9:36
Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?
Sept. 28, 2022
29:10
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