670 Episodes

  1. Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?

    Published: 29/06/2022
  2. Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

    Published: 25/06/2022
  3. Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

    Published: 22/06/2022
  4. How often do people have sex?

    Published: 18/06/2022
  5. Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

    Published: 15/06/2022
  6. Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

    Published: 11/06/2022
  7. Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

    Published: 8/06/2022
  8. Are girls starting puberty earlier?

    Published: 4/06/2022
  9. Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

    Published: 1/06/2022
  10. Noisy Decisions

    Published: 28/05/2022
  11. Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

    Published: 25/05/2022
  12. Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?

    Published: 21/05/2022
  13. Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

    Published: 14/05/2022
  14. Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

    Published: 7/05/2022
  15. Sweden’s polarising pandemic response

    Published: 30/04/2022
  16. Understanding India through Data

    Published: 23/04/2022
  17. Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

    Published: 15/04/2022
  18. Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

    Published: 9/04/2022
  19. Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

    Published: 2/04/2022
  20. Pizza and Nuclear War

    Published: 20/03/2022

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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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