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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters

9 mins; July 31, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy

9 mins; July 24, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Live 8, The G8 and Making Poverty History

9 mins; July 17, 2015

Greece Special

30 mins; July 10, 2015

Biggest Movies

9 mins; June 26, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health

9 mins; June 19, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint

9 mins; June 13, 2015

Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs

23 mins; June 12, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths

9 mins; June 06, 2015

World Cup Migrant Deaths

27 mins; June 05, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: John Nash

9 mins; May 30, 2015

Seven-day NHS

27 mins; May 29, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty

9 mins; May 23, 2015

Female Drink Drivers

27 mins; May 22, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers

9 mins; May 16, 2015

Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15

23 mins; May 15, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte

9 mins; May 11, 2015

Election and Adultery Special

23 mins; May 08, 2015

UK election podcast 4

16 mins; May 06, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise

9 mins; May 02, 2015

Polls, nuns and life partners

23 mins; May 01, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa

9 mins; April 25, 2015

UK Election Podcast 3

16 mins; April 24, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.

9 mins; April 18, 2015

UK election podcast 2

27 mins; April 17, 2015

UK election podcast 1

33 mins; April 13, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test

9 mins; April 11, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess

9 mins; April 03, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?

9 mins; March 28, 2015

Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?

9 mins; March 21, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health

9 mins; March 14, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: The future of food

9 mins; March 07, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US

9 mins; February 28, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

9 mins; February 21, 2015

The mathematical secrets to relationships

9 mins; February 14, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

9 mins; February 09, 2015

Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

27 mins; February 06, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating

9 mins; February 02, 2015

Cameron’s 1000 jobs

27 mins; January 30, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth

9 mins; January 26, 2015

Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?

27 mins; January 23, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?

9 mins; January 19, 2015

How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?

28 mins; January 16, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer

9 mins; January 12, 2015

A&E waiting times

28 mins; January 09, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.

9 mins; January 04, 2015

Numbers of the Year 2014.

27 mins; January 02, 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.

9 mins; December 27, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.

9 mins; December 20, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths

9 mins; December 13, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy

9 mins; December 06, 2014

Teenage Pregnancy

9 mins; November 29, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney

9 mins; November 22, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide

10 mins; November 15, 2014

Tracking and Tackling Ebola

9 mins; November 08, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation

9 mins; November 01, 2014

Screening for Ebola

9 mins; October 25, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Big Data

9 mins; October 18, 2014

Species in Decline?

9 mins; October 11, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Will Berlin see a sub-two-hour marathon?

9 mins; October 06, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: How do we calculate the distance to the sun?

9 mins; September 29, 2014

The Barnett Formula

28 mins; September 26, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi

9 mins; September 22, 2014

Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match

28 mins; September 19, 2014

Shakespeare vs Rappers

9 mins; September 15, 2014

Scottish referendum polls

28 mins; September 12, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?

9 mins; September 08, 2014

To ice or not to ice?

28 mins; September 05, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Do We Use Only 10% of Our Brains?

9 mins; September 01, 2014

How Deadly Is Ebola?

28 mins; August 29, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza

9 mins; August 25, 2014

Troubled families?

28 mins; August 22, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism

9 mins; August 18, 2014

Student Loans

28 mins; August 15, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Ebola

9 mins; August 10, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying

9 mins; August 02, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?

9 mins; July 26, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France

9 mins; July 19, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket

9 mins; July 12, 2014

Will we die before our parents?

9 mins; July 05, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?

9 mins; June 28, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?

9 mins; June 21, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?

9 mins; June 16, 2014

Faith and Charity?

28 mins; June 13, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'

9 mins; June 09, 2014

What's Scottish Independence Worth?

28 mins; June 06, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair

9 mins; June 02, 2014

The Piketty Affair

27 mins; May 30, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy

9 mins; May 26, 2014

Romanian Crime

28 mins; May 23, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?

9 mins; May 19, 2014

Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats

28 mins; May 16, 2014

WS MoreOrLess: Brazil’s Maths Superstar

9 mins; May 12, 2014

Food Bank Britain

28 mins; May 09, 2014

Sir Roger Bannister's ‘impossible’ feat

9 mins; May 05, 2014

British Law - Made in Brussels?

28 mins; May 02, 2014

Killed for being female?

9 mins; April 26, 2014

Magic Numbers

9 mins; April 19, 2014

Nigeria - rich or poor?

9 mins; April 12, 2014

Freedom in Numbers

9 mins; April 05, 2014

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