669 Episodes

  1. Where have Cuba’s people gone?

    Published: 31/08/2024
  2. Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

    Published: 24/08/2024
  3. Are companies making more money from their customers?

    Published: 17/08/2024
  4. Is planet Earth getting greener?

    Published: 10/08/2024
  5. Does a language die every two weeks?

    Published: 3/08/2024
  6. Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

    Published: 27/07/2024
  7. Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

    Published: 20/07/2024
  8. Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained

    Published: 13/07/2024
  9. The magic of trigonometry

    Published: 6/07/2024
  10. Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

    Published: 3/07/2024
  11. How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

    Published: 29/06/2024
  12. Election claims and erection claims

    Published: 26/06/2024
  13. Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?

    Published: 22/06/2024
  14. Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

    Published: 19/06/2024
  15. Shakespeare’s maths

    Published: 15/06/2024
  16. Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

    Published: 12/06/2024
  17. Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US

    Published: 8/06/2024
  18. Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

    Published: 5/06/2024
  19. Data for India

    Published: 1/06/2024
  20. UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics

    Published: 29/05/2024

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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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