More or Less Episodes Episode guide
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Predicting L'Aquila Earthquake: is it right to blame the scientists?
This week six scientists and one ex-government official were sentenced to prison for...
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Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?
Are more working families in poverty? Plus exploring the new school league tables.
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Post-Election Special
The results of the general election are in - but what do they mean?
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Pop up economics
Episode 1 of Tim Harford's new series, Pop Up Economics, in which he tells a live and...
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Polls, nuns and life partners
On the eve of the UK's general election, Tim Harford takes a look at what polling data...
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Plenty more fish in the sea?
Only 100 cod are left in the North Sea according to newspapers. Is this the most wrong...
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Plastic Bags
Has a 5p charge caused a drop in the use of carrier bags?
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Pizza and Nuclear War
How good negotiation can help us split pizzas fairly and also avoid Nuclear War
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Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
What does per capita GDP tell us? How much did the EU spend on covid recovery?
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Pensions, and the Eurozone crisis.
In the week of a nationwide strike over pension changes, Tim Harford explains how the...
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Pensioners aren't poor anymore
High-rolling pensioners? predicting Norovirus, air pollution deaths and lost or found?
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Pension Charges
When the government announced that fees charged by pension providers could be capped,...
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Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn鈥檛 exist by the year 2000
Why Paul Ehrlich鈥檚 dire predictions about a population collapse failed to materialise
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Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris鈥檚 broadband claim
The scale of the disaster is huge, but is a third of Pakistan really under water?
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One in 500 Year Storm
Experts say that Houston just suffered a one in 500 year storm but what does that mean?
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Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters
An Omicron update, pandemic birth rates and the booster drive.
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Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
What does the data show about whether this wave of the epidemic is waning in the UK?
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Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs
Tim Harford looks at how recent obesity projections were calculated.
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Obesity crisis?
Tim Harford discovers that health statistics contradict a report which says obesity is...
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Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts
Are nurses paid more than the national average? We take a look.
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Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists
We look at how much nurses in the UK are paid compared with those in Europe.
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Nurses, flatmates and cats
We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing
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Numbers of the year: Part two
Tim Harford showcases statistics from 2020
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Numbers of the year: Part one
Tim Harford showcases statistics from 2020
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Numbers of the year part 2
Our listeners favourite numbers of 2024.
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Numbers of the year 2026
From passenger numbers to world cup travel, we cast our eye forwards into 2026
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Numbers of the year 2025
A plethora of interesting numbers you may not know about
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Numbers of the year 2025
From tariffs to comets, we look back at the numbers of 2025 across the world
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Numbers of the year 2024
We ask experts about their favourite stats from 2024.
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Numbers of the year 2023
Hand-picked stats that tell you something interesting about the world
