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From:BBC Radio 4

🇬🇧 United Kingdom·English

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

Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

6 years
Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara
28m

Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish

6 years
Covid cases rising, a guide to life’s risks, and racing jelly-fish
28m

Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality

6 years
Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality
27m

Covid plasma therapy

6 years
Covid plasma therapy
27m

A-level algorithms, poker and buses

6 years
A-level algorithms, poker and buses
28m

Belarus’ contested election

6 years
Belarus’ contested election
9m

Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?

6 years
Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?
27m

Melting Antarctic ice

6 years
Melting Antarctic ice
8m

Covid in Africa

6 years
Covid in Africa
10m

Data in the time of cholera

6 years
Data in the time of cholera
8m

Covid misconceptions and US deaths

6 years
Covid misconceptions and US deaths
8m

Sweden’s lockdown lite

6 years
Sweden’s lockdown lite
14m

Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback

6 years
Why Trump is wrong about the USA’s coronavirus case comeback
9m

Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?

6 years
Why did the UK have such a bad Covid-19 epidemic?
28m

A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave

6 years
A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave
9m

Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave

6 years
Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave
28m

Who Should be Quarantined?

6 years
Who Should be Quarantined?
9m

Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

6 years
Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS
28m

Spanish coronavirus figures and pangolins

6 years
Spanish coronavirus figures and pangolins
9m

Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

6 years
Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths
27m

Keep your distance

6 years
Keep your distance
9m

False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants

6 years
False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants
27m

Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?

6 years
Obeying lockdown, flight arrivals and is this wave of the epidemic waning?
27m

60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots

6 years
60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots
8m

School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots

6 years
School re-opening, Germany’s Covid-19 success and statistically savvy parrots
28m

Social Distancing and Government Borrowing

6 years
Social Distancing and Government Borrowing
9m

Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule

6 years
Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule
27m

Covid-19 fatality rate

6 years
Covid-19 fatality rate
8m

Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.

6 years
Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.
27m

Climate change and birdsong

6 years
Climate change and birdsong
9m