Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
Radio 4,·684 episodes
We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.
28 Jun 2019,·9 mins
We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl
21 Jun 2019,·15 mins
How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.
14 Jun 2019,·9 mins
The hidden influences that a make a big difference to the way the world works.
10 Jun 2019,·9 mins
Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?
07 Jun 2019,·23 mins
Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.
03 Jun 2019,·9 mins
What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?
31 May 2019,·27 mins
How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.
27 May 2019,·10 mins
The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.
24 May 2019,·24 mins
A musical interpretation of a chart depicting the yield-curve of American bonds.
20 May 2019,·9 mins
Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women
17 May 2019,·27 mins
We revisit some classic topics from past years
13 May 2019,·15 mins
Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)
10 May 2019,·27 mins
Exploring the economic impact of losing half the world’s population
06 May 2019,·10 mins
We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing
03 May 2019,·23 mins
Did Bernie Sanders get the cost of giving birth right?
29 Apr 2019,·9 mins
Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?
26 Apr 2019,·27 mins
Major sports events and the benefits to the local economy.
19 Apr 2019,·8 mins
A battle is brewing in the Southern Scottish uplands between two rival villages.
15 Apr 2019,·8 mins
We examine the cancer-causing potential of the weed killer glyphosate
08 Apr 2019,·8 mins
What a statistical analysis of chess moves can teach us about this ancient game.
01 Apr 2019,·10 mins
Is the West African king, Mansa Musa, the richest person who ever lived?
25 Mar 2019,·8 mins
Does the sudden loss of an hour of sleep raise the risk of having a heart attack?
18 Mar 2019,·8 mins
Are women really less likely than men to be hired for jobs in tech?
09 Mar 2019,·9 mins
Could insects go extinct in one hundred years?
02 Mar 2019,·12 mins
Die, sell on a sunny day, place your work a third of the way through the auction.
22 Feb 2019,·9 mins
Tim Harford talks to Matt Parker on how simple maths mistakes can cause big problems.
18 Feb 2019,·9 mins
Tim Harford on climate change, Victorian diseases, maths mistakes and alcohol consumption
15 Feb 2019,·23 mins
Assessing the accuracy of a Groundhog; How many English people have right royal relatives?
11 Feb 2019,·18 mins
Tim Harford finds untrue a recent report that there is a 'suicidal generation' of teens.
08 Feb 2019,·28 mins
