667 Episodes

  1. A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

    Published: 1/11/2023
  2. Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

    Published: 1/7/2023
  3. Irish pubs - a global numbers game

    Published: 12/31/2022
  4. Numbers of the Year 2022

    Published: 12/24/2022
  5. Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

    Published: 12/17/2022
  6. Why are data so important in determining how we live?

    Published: 12/10/2022
  7. The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?

    Published: 12/3/2022
  8. When do food shortages become a famine?

    Published: 11/26/2022
  9. A $220 billion World Cup?

    Published: 11/19/2022
  10. Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

    Published: 11/14/2022
  11. Improving the numbers in the news

    Published: 11/12/2022
  12. Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

    Published: 11/5/2022
  13. Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

    Published: 10/29/2022
  14. Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?

    Published: 10/22/2022
  15. Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

    Published: 10/15/2022
  16. Catching Chess Cheats with Data

    Published: 10/8/2022
  17. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 10/7/2022
  18. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 10/5/2022
  19. NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

    Published: 10/1/2022
  20. Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

    Published: 9/28/2022

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