Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4
What's happening to Arctic ice?
March 25, 2024
9:48
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
March 16, 2024
8:58
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
March 9, 2024
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
March 2, 2024
School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
Feb. 28, 2024
28:59
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Feb. 24, 2024
8:59
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
Feb. 21, 2024
28:23
The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
Feb. 17, 2024
9:47
Debt, students, shark and chips
Feb. 14, 2024
28:35
The global gender split in young people’s politics
Feb. 10, 2024
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
Feb. 7, 2024
28:43
A pocket-size history of the calculator
Feb. 3, 2024
9:11
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Jan. 31, 2024
28:44
Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
Jan. 27, 2024
10:05
Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing
Jan. 24, 2024
28:32
Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
Jan. 20, 2024
Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter
Jan. 17, 2024
23:56
Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
Jan. 13, 2024
Deaths, taxes and missing cats
Jan. 10, 2024
28:46
How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
Jan. 6, 2024
Numbers of the year 2023
Dec. 30, 2023
13:08
Can chocolate be better than salad?
Dec. 23, 2023
China’s missing numbers
Dec. 16, 2023
Does endurance sport harm your heart?
Dec. 9, 2023
Will there be a billion climate refugees?
Dec. 2, 2023
9:58
A boy meets girl meets stats story
Nov. 25, 2023
Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
Nov. 18, 2023
Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
Nov. 11, 2023
10:00
Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
Nov. 4, 2023
8:57
The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
Oct. 28, 2023
9:23
What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
Oct. 21, 2023
Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
Oct. 14, 2023
12:52
Are half the words in English from French?
Oct. 7, 2023
9:45
Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
Oct. 4, 2023
28:25
Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
Sept. 30, 2023
NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
Sept. 27, 2023
30:25
Which city has the longest canals?
Sept. 23, 2023
9:35
Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
Sept. 20, 2023
27:47
How to approach the world through numbers
Sept. 16, 2023
9:28
Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
Sept. 13, 2023
28:52
Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
Sept. 11, 2023
14:11
Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
Sept. 6, 2023
What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
Sept. 2, 2023
HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
Aug. 30, 2023
28:38
How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
Aug. 26, 2023
9:53
How many butterflies are there in the world?
Aug. 19, 2023
Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?
Aug. 12, 2023
Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
Aug. 5, 2023
Data, extreme weather and climate change
July 29, 2023
Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
July 22, 2023
9:42
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