670 Episodes

  1. Data, extreme weather and climate change

    Published: 29/07/2023
  2. Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths

    Published: 22/07/2023
  3. Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?

    Published: 15/07/2023
  4. Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

    Published: 8/07/2023
  5. Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme

    Published: 5/07/2023
  6. Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?

    Published: 1/07/2023
  7. Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?

    Published: 28/06/2023
  8. US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?

    Published: 24/06/2023
  9. Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?

    Published: 21/06/2023
  10. Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?

    Published: 17/06/2023
  11. Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?

    Published: 14/06/2023
  12. Counting Hunger in India

    Published: 10/06/2023
  13. Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat

    Published: 7/06/2023
  14. A short history of data

    Published: 3/06/2023
  15. Food prices, net migration and beef about beef

    Published: 31/05/2023
  16. Are young people more single than ever before?

    Published: 28/05/2023
  17. NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce

    Published: 24/05/2023
  18. Detecting Bad Science with Data

    Published: 20/05/2023
  19. Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?

    Published: 13/05/2023
  20. Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?

    Published: 6/05/2023

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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

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