600 Episodes

  1. Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

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

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

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

    Published: 07/05/2022
  5. Sweden’s polarising pandemic response

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

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

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

    Published: 09/04/2022
  9. Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

    Published: 02/04/2022
  10. Pizza and Nuclear War

    Published: 20/03/2022
  11. Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

    Published: 13/03/2022
  12. Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

    Published: 06/03/2022
  13. Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

    Published: 02/03/2022
  14. Did lockdowns save any lives?

    Published: 27/02/2022
  15. Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes

    Published: 23/02/2022
  16. Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

    Published: 20/02/2022
  17. Questioning claims about Covid and children

    Published: 16/02/2022
  18. Testosterone and sport

    Published: 13/02/2022
  19. The prime minister in statistical bother

    Published: 09/02/2022
  20. Can you fool your brain?

    Published: 06/02/2022

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Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4

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