More or Less: Behind the Stats

A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Saturdays

Saturdays

600 Episodes

  1. Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

    Published: 25/02/2023
  2. Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

    Published: 22/02/2023
  3. Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

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

    Published: 15/02/2023
  5. Spreadsheet disasters

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 03/12/2022

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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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