677 Episodes

  1. Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

    Published: 2/15/2023
  2. Spreadsheet disasters

    Published: 2/11/2023
  3. The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English

    Published: 2/8/2023
  4. Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

    Published: 2/4/2023
  5. Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

    Published: 2/1/2023
  6. Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

    Published: 1/28/2023
  7. Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

    Published: 1/25/2023
  8. Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

    Published: 1/21/2023
  9. Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

    Published: 1/18/2023
  10. How we shook the world of very large numbers

    Published: 1/14/2023
  11. A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

    Published: 1/11/2023
  12. Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

    Published: 1/7/2023
  13. Irish pubs - a global numbers game

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

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

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

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

    Published: 12/3/2022
  18. When do food shortages become a famine?

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

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

    Published: 11/14/2022

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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life