More or Less: Behind the Stats
A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Saturdays
600 Episodes
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Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?
Published: 25/02/2023 -
Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause
Published: 22/02/2023 -
Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data
Published: 18/02/2023 -
Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
Published: 15/02/2023 -
Spreadsheet disasters
Published: 11/02/2023 -
The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English
Published: 08/02/2023 -
Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer
Published: 04/02/2023 -
Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer
Published: 01/02/2023 -
Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?
Published: 28/01/2023 -
Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper
Published: 25/01/2023 -
Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?
Published: 21/01/2023 -
Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs
Published: 18/01/2023 -
How we shook the world of very large numbers
Published: 14/01/2023 -
A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers
Published: 11/01/2023 -
Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?
Published: 07/01/2023 -
Irish pubs - a global numbers game
Published: 31/12/2022 -
Numbers of the Year 2022
Published: 24/12/2022 -
Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties
Published: 17/12/2022 -
Why are data so important in determining how we live?
Published: 10/12/2022 -
The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?
Published: 03/12/2022
Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4