678 Episodes

  1. Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

    Published: 18/02/2023
  2. Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

    Published: 15/02/2023
  3. Spreadsheet disasters

    Published: 11/02/2023
  4. The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English

    Published: 08/02/2023
  5. Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

    Published: 04/02/2023
  6. Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

    Published: 01/02/2023
  7. Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

    Published: 28/01/2023
  8. Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

    Published: 25/01/2023
  9. Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

    Published: 21/01/2023
  10. Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

    Published: 18/01/2023
  11. How we shook the world of very large numbers

    Published: 14/01/2023
  12. A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

    Published: 11/01/2023
  13. Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

    Published: 07/01/2023
  14. Irish pubs - a global numbers game

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

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

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

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

    Published: 03/12/2022
  19. When do food shortages become a famine?

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

    Published: 19/11/2022

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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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