679 Episodes

  1. A $220 billion World Cup?

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

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

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

    Published: 05/11/2022
  5. Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

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

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

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

    Published: 08/10/2022
  9. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 07/10/2022
  10. Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

    Published: 05/10/2022
  11. NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

    Published: 01/10/2022
  12. Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

    Published: 28/09/2022
  13. Ukraine’s progress in numbers

    Published: 24/09/2022
  14. Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

    Published: 22/09/2022
  15. How bad is fashion for the environment?

    Published: 17/09/2022
  16. Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

    Published: 14/09/2022
  17. Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

    Published: 10/09/2022
  18. Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

    Published: 07/09/2022
  19. Can we use maths to beat the robots?

    Published: 03/09/2022
  20. Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

    Published: 31/08/2022

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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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