667 Episodes

  1. How to better understand and explain numbers

    Published: 4/8/2023
  2. A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?

    Published: 4/1/2023
  3. Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage

    Published: 3/25/2023
  4. Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run

    Published: 3/18/2023
  5. Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

    Published: 3/11/2023
  6. Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?

    Published: 3/4/2023
  7. UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?

    Published: 3/1/2023
  8. Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

    Published: 2/25/2023
  9. Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

    Published: 2/22/2023
  10. Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

    Published: 2/18/2023
  11. Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

    Published: 2/15/2023
  12. Spreadsheet disasters

    Published: 2/11/2023
  13. The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English

    Published: 2/8/2023
  14. Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

    Published: 2/4/2023
  15. Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

    Published: 2/1/2023
  16. Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

    Published: 1/28/2023
  17. Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

    Published: 1/25/2023
  18. Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

    Published: 1/21/2023
  19. Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

    Published: 1/18/2023
  20. How we shook the world of very large numbers

    Published: 1/14/2023

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