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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.

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WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?
After the death of Cheick Tiote, are African footballers more prone to heart attacks?
12 Jun 2017,9 mins
UK Election extra
This podcast is a compilation of interviews with Eddie Mair from Radio 4’s PM programme.
07 Jun 2017,14 mins
WS More or Less: Samba, strings and the story of HIV
Can medical statistics be transformed into a jazzy night out?
05 Jun 2017,9 mins
Election Special: Tax, borders and climate
Who pays income tax, cutting migration and where in the UK is cold?
02 Jun 2017,29 mins
WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?
Education is failing our kids, claim experts. We go sleuthing around the world.
28 May 2017,9 mins
Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks
Can security services follow everyone known to them?
26 May 2017,23 mins
WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees
Has Uganda accepted more refugees, daily than some European countries in an entire year?
22 May 2017,9 mins
Tax, speed dating and sea ice
Exploring the Labour manifesto's tax plans for high earners.
19 May 2017,24 mins
Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts
Are nurses paid more than the national average? We take a look.
12 May 2017,23 mins
WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
12 May 2017,9 mins
WS More or Less: An urban maze
Why some parts of town are hard to navigate.
08 May 2017,9 mins
Is Crime Rising?
It looks like homicides are on the rise - but better check the footnotes
05 May 2017,24 mins
WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating
How to use mathematics to find your partner. And, how reliable are pregnancy due dates?
01 May 2017,9 mins
Fact-checking Boris Johnson
Giant bombs, a war hero and the foreign secretary's stats.
28 Apr 2017,28 mins
WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans – What’s going on?
Are middle-aged white Americans dying younger than other groups?
21 Apr 2017,9 mins
Living standards and Kate Bush maths
Are people's incomes falling? Plus singing Pi like Kate Bush
21 Apr 2017,23 mins
WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test
How much do you know about the world?
14 Apr 2017,9 mins
Economics of Overbooking
Why airlines bet that not everybody will turn up for a flight.
14 Apr 2017,24 mins
WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?
Experts warn that North Korea could wipe out most Americans in one go.
10 Apr 2017,9 mins
WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?
Is there evidence that one in four people will develop a mental health problem?
31 Mar 2017,9 mins
WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes – are they really saving infant’s lives?
They’ve become a bit of a phenomenon but what’s the evidence that they work?
24 Mar 2017,9 mins
More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump’s wall and China
Did China use more concrete in three years than the US in the 20th Century?
17 Mar 2017,9 mins
WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish
Are our attention spans now shorter than a goldfish's?
10 Mar 2017,8 mins
WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?
Top Hollywood actresses have complained that they are paid less than their male co-stars
03 Mar 2017,8 mins