More or Less: Behind the Stats

A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Saturdays

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543 Episodes

  1. NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes

    Published: 9/27/2023
  2. Which city has the longest canals?

    Published: 9/23/2023
  3. Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims

    Published: 9/20/2023
  4. How to approach the world through numbers

    Published: 9/16/2023
  5. Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter

    Published: 9/13/2023
  6. Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?

    Published: 9/11/2023
  7. Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty

    Published: 9/6/2023
  8. What percentage of our brain do we actually use?

    Published: 9/2/2023
  9. HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors

    Published: 8/30/2023
  10. How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?

    Published: 8/26/2023
  11. How many butterflies are there in the world?

    Published: 8/19/2023
  12. Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?

    Published: 8/12/2023
  13. Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?

    Published: 8/5/2023
  14. Data, extreme weather and climate change

    Published: 7/29/2023
  15. Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths

    Published: 7/22/2023
  16. Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?

    Published: 7/15/2023
  17. Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

    Published: 7/8/2023
  18. Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme

    Published: 7/5/2023
  19. Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?

    Published: 7/1/2023
  20. Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?

    Published: 6/28/2023

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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