More or Less: Behind the Stats

A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Saturdays

Saturdays

600 Episodes

  1. Deaths, taxes and missing cats

    Published: 1/10/2024
  2. How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?

    Published: 1/6/2024
  3. Numbers of the year 2023

    Published: 12/30/2023
  4. Can chocolate be better than salad?

    Published: 12/23/2023
  5. China’s missing numbers

    Published: 12/16/2023
  6. Does endurance sport harm your heart?

    Published: 12/9/2023
  7. Will there be a billion climate refugees?

    Published: 12/2/2023
  8. A boy meets girl meets stats story

    Published: 11/25/2023
  9. Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?

    Published: 11/18/2023
  10. Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

    Published: 11/11/2023
  11. Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?

    Published: 11/4/2023
  12. The Overlooked Mathematicians of History

    Published: 10/28/2023
  13. What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?

    Published: 10/21/2023
  14. Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

    Published: 10/14/2023
  15. Are half the words in English from French?

    Published: 10/7/2023
  16. Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times

    Published: 10/4/2023
  17. Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?

    Published: 9/30/2023
  18. NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes

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

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

    Published: 9/20/2023

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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