All Episodes

Why it’s wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking

Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef?

Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?

Is Trump right that wind turbines are killing millions of birds?

Dr Spock’s dangerous advice on baby sleep

How likely is ‘likely’?

How much water does AI consume?

Paul Ehrlich: The man who bet England wouldn’t exist by the year 2000

Transgender women in sport: Does ‘comparable’ mean ‘equal’?

US-Israel war with Iran: Do the gulf states have enough interceptor missiles?

Has a company really discovered a million new species?

Did AI researchers let AI hallucinations into scientific papers?

Is an ancient charioteer the best paid sportsperson of all time?

Is this Premier League striker a secret maths genius?

Could Europe use its financial muscle to strong-arm the US?

Can you get £71,000 on benefits?

Is Greenland as big as Africa?

How close is Greenland to the United States?

No, a study has not shown that the covid jab causes cancer

Have more than 100 private schools been forced to close because of VAT?

Does Venezuela really have the biggest oil reserves in the world?

The Stats of the Nation: Immigration, benefits and inequality

The Stats of the Nation: Older people, education, prisons and the weather

The Stats of the Nation: Sex, drugs and empty homes

The Stats of the Nation: Health

The Stats of the Nation: The Economy

Numbers of the year 2026

Numbers of the year 2025

Numbers of the year 2025

Were there really Three Wise Men?

The shocking world of US health costs

Do we really have ‘superflu’?

RCP 8.5: Why did the climate change model get it wrong?

Is RFK right about US sperm counts?

Richard Thaler and The Winner’s Curse

Is there a stock market crash coming?

Has there been a $50 trillion wealth transfer to the richest Americans?

Is RFK Jr right about China's diabetes rate?

Halloween special: How many people did the real Dracula impale?

Is your housework split sexist?

Nobel economics prize 2025: What's the big idea?

Are millions of people getting Motability cars for anxiety and ADHD?

Are 72% of prison inmates in Switzerland foreign?

Does half the UK get more in benefits than they pay in tax?

Is the world getting less miserable?

Has Donald Trump ended seven 'unendable' wars?

The Case of the Missing US Data

Was it easier to deport migrants to France before Brexit?

Is JD Vance right about left-wing violence?

Is it true that out-of-work benefits have almost doubled?

Will the world really be 50 million workers short by 2030?

Are Afghan nationals more likely to be convicted of sexual offences?

Do 11,000 sharks die every hour?

Are self-driving cars safer than cars with drivers?

Do women feel the cold more than men?

How weird was the Med Sea heatwave?

Why it matters that Trump fired data chief

Are abortion numbers rising in the US?

Does a single AI query use a bottle of water?

Are one in six children living through war?

Why Manchester United can afford to play badly

Can drinking one less bottle of coke a day halve obesity?

The economics of war: Vikings, Conquistadors and Vietnam

Is the UK seeing a Christian revival?

Has Russia suffered a million casualties in the Ukraine war?

Why is data on grooming gangs so bad?

How to spot a suspicious statistic

Are 4% of young women in the UK on OnlyFans?

Could you be hit by a falling satellite?

How do you make something 10-times more lethal?

Is the world’s population being miscounted?

Does the average American have fewer than three friends?

Factchecking the Trump administration’s Autism claims

Is the UN underestimating the global fall in fertility?

How dead is the internet?

Warren Buffett’s brilliant bets

Bonus episode: The Autism Curve

Donald Trump: 100 days fact-check

Are 80% of women really only attracted to 20% of men?

The pioneers of proof

How much is a human life worth?

The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula

Trump tariffs: All about the deficits

Is one in four people in the UK disabled?

What’s Trump’s problem with Canada?

Could a 2% wealth tax raise £24bn?

What are the chances of an asteroid hitting earth in 2032?

Why are more people claiming disability benefits?

How did lockdown impact children?

What is an IQ map and can we trust them?

DOGE, apples and irregular migrants

Is there really $500bn of Rare Earths in Ukraine?

Defence Spending, Rare Earths and Trunk Truths

Has the US really given Ukraine more aid than Europe?

Are 150 year olds getting social security payments?

Has the US sent $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza?

Are black babies in the US really more likely to die under the care of white doctors?

Are quantum computers already super-powerful?

Did Trump make billions with his meme-coin?

Can redheads handle 25% more pain than brunettes?

Do 79% of Swedish asylum seekers go on holiday to the country they fled from?

Numbers of the year part 2

Numbers of the year 2024

Did Mussolini make the trains run on time?

How many Americans live ‘paycheck to paycheck’?

Did one in 10 Greeks die in World War Two?

Can Elon Musk save the US Government $2 trillion?

Do fossil fuels get $7 trillion in subsidies?

Did 20 million votes really go missing in the US election?

Do we have enough clothes for the next six generations?

What can economics learn from sport?

Are older drivers more dangerous?

Is Trump right about violent crime in Venezuela and the US?

Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

Nobel prize: Why are some countries so much richer than others?

When are numbers like a horse at a gymkhana?

Uncertainty, probability and double yoked eggs

Should the government target persnuffle?

Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

The puzzles you’re meant to get wrong

Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

Do 85% of the world’s population practice a religion?

How do you count millionaires?

Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

Who pays when trade wars heat up?

Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

Where have Cuba’s people gone?

Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

Are companies making more money from their customers?

Is planet Earth getting greener?

Does a language die every two weeks?

Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

Federer’s 54%: Tennis stats explained

The magic of trigonometry

Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

Election claims and erection claims

Do ‘pig butchering’ cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia’s GDP?

Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

Shakespeare’s maths

Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US

Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

Data for India

UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics

Is intermittent fasting going to kill you?

MP misconduct, NHS waiting lists and gold (gold)

Are falling marriage rates causing happiness to fall in the US?

Is reading for pleasure the single biggest factor in how well a child does in life?

Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?

Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?

98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?

Tackling The Three-Body Problem

Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?

Remembering Daniel Kahneman

Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow

What's happening to Arctic ice?

Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?

Is public speaking really our biggest fear?

Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?

School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow

NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?

Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget

The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data

Debt, students, shark and chips

The global gender split in young people’s politics

Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster

A pocket-size history of the calculator

Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit

Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?

Shopping, shipping and wind chill-ing

Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?

Life expectancy, inheritance tax and the NHS vs winter

Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?

Deaths, taxes and missing cats

How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?

Numbers of the year 2023

Can chocolate be better than salad?

China’s missing numbers

Does endurance sport harm your heart?

Will there be a billion climate refugees?

A boy meets girl meets stats story

Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?

Can maths prove the existence of aliens?

Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?

The Overlooked Mathematicians of History

What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?

Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap

Are half the words in English from French?

Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times

Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?

NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes

Which city has the longest canals?

Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims

How to approach the world through numbers

Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter

Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?

Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty

What percentage of our brain do we actually use?

HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors

How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?

How many butterflies are there in the world?

Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League?

Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?

Data, extreme weather and climate change

Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths

Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?

Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme

Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?

Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?

US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?

Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?

Is breastfeeding the key to exam success?

Electric vehicles, 600 million bottles and does oral sex cause cancer?

Counting Hunger in India

Lib Dem ambulance claims, affordable rent and goat meat

A short history of data

Food prices, net migration and beef about beef

Are young people more single than ever before?

NHS waiting lists, Voter ID and measuring divorce

Detecting Bad Science with Data

Do 94% of marriages in Portugal really end in divorce?

Why is life expectancy falling in the USA?

How much is the Coronation crown worth?

The Pentagon Leaks and Fox News

How accurate is baby's due date?

How to better understand and explain numbers

A groundbreaking new proof for Pythagoras’ Theorem?

Covid vaccines and false claims about miscarriage

Silicon Valley Bank: a very modern bank run

Do fungi kill three times as many people as malaria?

Does your jewellery contain stolen Brink’s-Mat gold?

UK vs European energy prices, falling excess deaths and is 5 grams of cocaine a lot?

Do 29,000 coffee pods really go to landfill every minute?

Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

Spreadsheet disasters

The IMF and the UK economy, NHS staff shortages and British vs English

Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

Brexit and trade, pensioner millionaires and Hannah Fry on loyalty cards and cancer

Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

Coffee with the Chancellor, inflation measures, GP numbers and toilet paper

Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

How we shook the world of very large numbers

A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

Irish pubs - a global numbers game

Numbers of the Year 2022

Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

Why are data so important in determining how we live?

The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?

When do food shortages become a famine?

A $220 billion World Cup?

Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

Improving the numbers in the news

Lula’s “zero deforestation” plan for the Amazon

Can China’s GDP data be trusted?

Do half of new books really sell fewer than twelve copies?

Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

Catching Chess Cheats with Data

Teens and antidepressants, stamp duty savings and earthquake probabilities

NASA’s asteroid collision: how many asteroids are really out there?

Falling pound, the Queen’s funeral and is 0.5 on the Richter scale a big number?

Ukraine’s progress in numbers

Ukraine offensive, weak pound & how much do women really exercise

How bad is fashion for the environment?

Energy crisis plan, imperial measures survey, gardens v national parks

Is a third of Pakistan really under water?

Pakistan flooding, UK power prices and Boris’s broadband claim

Can we use maths to beat the robots?

Energy prices, excess deaths and the race to count to 200

Kenya’s Election Rounding Error

The numbers behind “natural” birth control

Is opinion polling broken?

Debunking the Liverpool FC Conspiracy Theory

How our world measures up

Does the World Athletics Championships have a false start problem?

Is Uganda about to become a middle income country?

Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?

How many American women will have an abortion in their lifetime?

Covid climb, childcare costs and why can’t the French count properly?

Ed Sheeran and the mathematics of musical coincidences

Rail strikes, tyre pollution and sex statistics

How often do people have sex?

Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

Employment puzzle, pyramids and triplets

Are girls starting puberty earlier?

Jubilee costs, fuel poverty and imperial measures

Noisy Decisions

Germany’s excess deaths, Eurovision and teacher shortages

Are just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions and how stressed are South Africans?

Did the WHO get some of its excess death estimates wrong?

Have the oceans become 30% more acidic?

Sweden’s polarising pandemic response

Understanding India through Data

Subitising and simplifying: how to better explain numbers

Did tea-drinking cut deaths in the Industrial Revolution?

Will the war in Ukraine cause a global wheat shortage?

Pizza and Nuclear War

Does the UK take in more refugees than other European countries?

Numbers in Ukraine and low seas in Chagos

Troop and Casualty Numbers in Ukraine

Did lockdowns save any lives?

Vaccinating children, lockdowns, and ebikes

Hospitalisation rates for children with Covid

Questioning claims about Covid and children

Testosterone and sport

The prime minister in statistical bother

Can you fool your brain?

Does the UK have the fastest growing economy in the G7?

Fertility rates: baby boom or bust?

Should you follow the 5 second rule? And does inflation hit the poorest harder?

Are female patients more likely to die if the surgeon is male?

Are women 32% more likely to die after operation by a male surgeon?

QAnon: Did 365,348 children go missing in the US in 2020?

Omicron, pandemic birth rates and boosters

How much plastic is in the Ocean and can Mr Beast make a difference?

Will the population of Nigeria be larger than Europe’s?

Numbers of 2021

The psychological economics of gift giving

Does catching covid give you more immunity than being vaccinated?

Does wearing a mask halve your chances of getting Covid-19?

Simpson’s Paradox: How to make vaccinated death figures misleading

A TikTok tale

The carbon cost of breakfast at COP26

Same data, opposite results. Can we trust research?

The art of counting

The numbers behind Squid Game

The prize-winning economics of migration and the minimum wage

Bonus episode: the first ever More or Less

Twenty years of More or Less

The Gender Pay Gap

Is it easy being green?

Covid trends, face mask use, and the universal credit cut

How many holes are there in a drinking straw?

Death, Tax and Dishwashers

Vaccine waning, hot dogs and Afghanistan

The Bill for Afghanistan

Covid, HGV driver shortages and protest costs

Reason, numbers and Mr Spock

The extraordinary life of Robert Moses

How good were the performances at the Tokyo Olympics?

Jab fears explained: a base rate fallacy

Breaking Climate Records

The Rise of Delta

The Freedom Day Gamble

Are there 40 million Nigerians on Twitter?

Is Ivermectin a Covid ‘wonder drug’?

Scotland cases, flood risk and taxing the poor

Maths and the Mayflower

Delta cases, blue tits and that one-in-two cancer claim

The origins of Covid

Covid deaths, outdoor swimming and care homes

The doubling of life-expectancy

Third wave fears, smart motorways and bra sizes

Bolton vaccines, Yorkshire versus Scotland and the average gamer

The Seaspiracy “virtually empty ocean” claim

Wales jab success, Eurovision and living with your parents

The medical trial that proved Trump wrong

Explaining maths without Numbers

Finding Mexico City’s real death toll

Bayes: the clergyman whose maths changed the world

Will 2021 have more Covid deaths than 2020?

How many swimming pools full of vaccine do we need?

Clot risks: The Pill versus the vaccine

Too fast for Minecraft?

In praise of Covid Data

Deciding when to suspend a vaccine

The truth about obesity and Covid 19

Sainthood and Cup draws

Why are US Covid cases falling?

Covid 19 death count: which countries are faring worst?

Comparing death counts, Lock Down drinking and Long Covid

How much Covid in the World?

Brexit exports, cladding and are 1 in 5 disabled?

Glasgow vs Rwanda

Teachers, Test & Trace and Butterflies

The Rapid Test Row

Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect

Deaths at home, supermarket infections and the Cobra effect

Counting Covid’s impact on GDP

Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing

How effective is one dose of the vaccine?

Ants and Algorithms

Numbers of the year: Part two

Numbers of the year: Part one

The economics of a Covid Christmas

QAnon: Child runaways and trafficking numbers debunked

Vaccines: how safe and who gets it?

Tracking Covid 19

Inviting Covid for Dinner

Vaccine numbers

How deadly is Covid 19?

Asymptomatic Covid19 Cases

US election: facts or fiction

Auction Theory - Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson

A short history of probability

Spreadsheet snafu, ‘Long Covid’ quantified, and the birth of probability

“Record” Covid cases, Trump on the death count, and ant pheromones

Covid curve queried, false positives, and the Queen’s head

The magical maths of pool testing

Covid testing capacity, refugee numbers, and mascara

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

Schools and coronavirus, test and trace, maths and reality

Covid plasma therapy

A-level algorithms, poker and buses

Belarus’ contested election

Hawaiian Pizza, obesity and a second wave?

Melting Antarctic ice

Covid in Africa

Data in the time of cholera

Covid misconceptions and US deaths

Sweden’s lockdown lite

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

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

A new Covid-19 drug and a second wave

Child Poverty, School Inequality and a Second Wave

Who Should be Quarantined?

Quarantine, Test and Trace and BODMAS

Antibody tests, early lockdown advice and European deaths

Keep your distance

False negatives, testing capacity and pheasants

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

60 Harvests and statistically savvy parrots

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

Social Distancing and Government Borrowing

Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule

Covid-19 fatality rate

Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.

Climate change and birdsong

Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown

Comparing countries' coronavirus performance

Bonus Podcast: Professor John Horton Conway

Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong

Superforecasting the Coronavirus

Should you wear a face mask?

Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom

Are more men dying from coronavirus?

Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity

The Risk

Coronavirus Special

Mitigation or Suppression: What’s best to tackle Coronavirus?

The mystery of Iran’s coronavirus numbers

How much heat do you lose from your head?

Netflix vs the environment

More or Less: Superforecasting, wood burning stoves and the real story of Hidden Figures

Artificial (not so) Intelligence

WS More or Less: Coronavirus - The Numbers

Coronavirus, jam, AI and tomatoes

WS More or Less: How fast are Alligators and Hippos?

Tracking terror suspects

WS More or Less: Coronavirus

Coronavirus, emotions and guns.

WS More or Less: Dozy Science

Netflix and Chill

WS More or Less: Japan’s 99% Conviction Rate

Weighing the Cost of Brexit

WS More or Less: Bushfire mystery

Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery

C-sections and sharks

Presidential candidates and dementia

The Simpsons and maths

Koalas

Election Special (2/2)

Tree Planting Pledges

Election Special 1/2

Testing tomatoes

The world’s busiest shipping lanes

Bolivia: Can statistics help detect electoral fraud?

Reducing your risk of death

Unbelievable: The forgotten rape data

Edith Abbott and crime statistics

Esther Duflo and women in economics

The Extra Episode: Minimum wage, drinking in Scotland and identical twins.

WS More or Less: Does San Francisco have more rough sleepers than Britain?

New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches

WS More or Less: Who fought in World War 1?

Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning

WS More or Less: Peaty v. Bolt: Which is the greatest world record?

Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

WS More or Less: Cape Town murders

Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music

WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil

Climate deaths, austerity and pet food

WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires

Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers

WS More or Less: Ethiopia’s 350m trees in a day

Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees

Mice and mind blowing maths

Immigrant Crime Rate in the US

The spread of fact-checking in Africa

Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence

Missing women from drug trials

Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?

Two World Cups: Football and Cricket

Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

WS More or Less: The things we fail to see

Are married women flipping miserable?

WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

Hay Festival Special

WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician

Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

Making music out of Money

Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps

Sex Every Seven Seconds

Sex, coal, missing people and mice

Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

Nurses, flatmates and cats

Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

The economic impact of mega sporting events

Where is Scotland’s highest village?

Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

Chess cheats and the GOAT

Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

Day light saving time and heart attacks

The gender gap in tech

Insectageddon

How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable

WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter

Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol

WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings

Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution

WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!

Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes

WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?

Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind

Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever

Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1

WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa

WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks

WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?

WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?

WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media

WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?

WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas

Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce

WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?

Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain

Surviving the Battle of Britain; the World Cup and Domestic Violence; Buckfast and Arrests in Scotland

WS More or Less: Trump and the Puerto Rico Death Toll

How Many Schoolchildren are Carers? Shareholder Income, and Museum Visitors Vs Football Fans

WS More or Less: DNA - Are You More Chimp or Neanderthal?

Male suicide, school ratings, are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?

WS More or Less: The Safest Car in the World?

Heart Age Calculator; Danish Sperm Imports; Counting Goats

WS: More or Less - How well do you understand your world?

African Trade Tariffs; Alcohol Safe Limits; President Trump's Popularity

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Coffins Full of Car Keys

WS: More or Less - Automated fact-checking

A no-frills life, automated fact-checking and Lord-of-the-Rings maths

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Condoms Can Cost a Week’s Wages

WS More or Less: Are Wildfires Really Burning More Land?

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - Bracelets for Bullets

Numbers Behind a Tweetstorm

BONUS PODCAST: Economics with Subtitles - How Buying Cocaine Helps the Government

Carbs, Sugar and the Truth

Getting Creative with Statistics

Should we have smaller families to save the planet?

How to Cycle Really Fast

Are there more stars than grains of beach sand?

Running at the World Cup

How many words do you need to speak a language?

FIFA World Cup Extravaganza

WS More or Less: How Many Animals are Born Every Day?

Infant Mortality, How to Reduce Exam Revision With Maths, London’s Murder Rate

Counting Rough Sleepers

The High Street, Home Births and Harry Potter Wizardry

WS More or Less: Australia Calling

Forecasting rain, teabags and voter ID trials

WS More or Less: James Comey - Basketball Superstar?

Poverty, Progress 8 and how green is grass?

WS More or Less: Tulipmania mythology

Abortion, modern slavery, math versus maths

WS More or Less: Exposing the biases we have of the world

Cancer screening, the Windrush Generation, Audiograms

WS More or Less: Puerto Rico - statistics versus politics

Straws, women on boards, plus animals born each day

WS More or Less: How Should We Think About Spending?

WS More More or Less: Are We Breathing Unsafe Air?

WS More or Less: Why London’s Murder Rate is Being Compared to New York’s

WS More or Less: How Deadly Was 1920s Melbourne?

Were ‘extra’ votes counted in Russia’s presidential election?

Factchecking Trump on Trade

WS More or Less: Sir Roger Bannister

WS More or Less: Women, the Oscars and the Bechdel Test

WS More or Less: The Winter Olympics

WS More or Less: Debunking guide – on a postcard

UN rape claims, Stalin and Mr Darcy

WS More or Less: Has Russian Drinking Fallen by 80% in five years?

The Dow, Tampons, Parkrun part II

WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?

Transgender Numbers, Parkrun and Snooker

Is the US Census Under Threat?

A Girl's First Time, Shark's Stomachs, Prime numbers

WS More or Less: Real Lives Behind the Numbers

Gender Pay Gaps and How to Learn a Language

WS More or Less: How Louis Bachelier Scooped Economists by Half a Century

Missed appointments, graduate pay, plus cocaine on bank notes

WS More or Less: Just how rare is a hole-in-one?

More or Less: Statistics of the Year 2017

WS More or Less: Will Bitcoin use more electricity than the United States?

WS More or Less: Diet Coke Habit; 'Contained' Wildfires

WS More or Less: Does Eating Chocolate Make Your Brain Younger?

WS More or Less: Just how lucky are regular lottery winners?

WS More or Less: How Rich was Jane Austen’s Mr Darcy?

How expensive is Italy's World Cup failure?

WS More or Less: Why Albums are Getting Longer

WS More or Less: Do Nigerian lawmakers get $1.7m and do Yams cause twins?

WS More or Less: Novelists in numbers

WS More or Less: Are US millennials more politically engaged online?

How Richard Thaler changed Economics

WS More or Less: Kilobyte to Brontobyte

WS More or Less: Big polluters - ships versus cars

Uber; EU passports; counting domestic violence

WS More or Less: Sperm - Are we going extinct?

Statistics abuse, tuition fees and beer in 1887

WS More or Less: How to measure a Hurricane

Are Natural Disasters on the Rise?

WS More or Less: More Horses than Tanks?

Electric cars, school-ready and feedback

One in 500 Year Storm

Grenfell Tower's Death Toll

Fantasy Football - How to win

A-levels, drowning and dress sizes

The Trump Bump

Are there 15,000 transgender people serving in the US military?

Why is Kenya’s election so expensive?

More boys than girls in Sweden?

Maryam Mirzakhani – A Genius of Maths

Calling the shots at Wimbledon

Is Steph Curry cheap and how random is random?

In Search of Woodall Primes

How rare are deadly tower block fires?

Trumpton Extra

Post-Election Special

WS More or Less: Are African football players more likely to die on the field?

UK Election extra

WS More or Less: Samba, strings and the story of HIV

Election Special: Tax, borders and climate

WS More or Less: Have 65% of future jobs not yet been invented?

Spies, care homes, and ending sneak peeks

WS More or Less: Uganda’s refugees

Tax, speed dating and sea ice

Nurses' pay, Scottish seats, Penalty shootouts

WS More or Less: Is my Baby a Giant?

WS More or Less: An urban maze

Is Crime Rising?

WS More or Less: The Maths of Dating

Fact-checking Boris Johnson

WS More or Less: The death rate of white Americans – What’s going on?

Living standards and Kate Bush maths

WS More or Less: The Ignorance Test

Economics of Overbooking

WS More or Less: Could North Korea Wipe out 90% of Americans?

WS More or Less: Will one in four people develop a mental health problem?

WS More Or Less: Baby Boxes – are they really saving infant’s lives?

More or Less: The concrete facts about Trump’s wall and China

WS More or Less: The Attention Span of a Goldfish

WS More or Less: Why are Hollywood actresses paid less than men?

WS More or Less: What happened last night in Sweden?

Hidden Figures: The Real Story

WS More or Less: Hans Rosling - the extraordinary life of a statistical guru

WS More or Less: Is democracy failing in America?

WS More or Less: Counting Crowds

WS More or Less: Why January makes us want to scream

WS More or Less: Christian Martyrs

WS More or Less: Should we really be drinking eight glasses of water a day?

WS More or Less: Does Sweden Really Have a Six Hour Day?

The Haber-Bosch Process

WS More or Less: Life, death and data

Christmas Quiz

WS More or Less: Yellow cards for Christmas

Have more famous people died this year?

WS More or Less: How risky is the contraceptive pill?

How wrong were the Brexit forecasts?

WS More or Less: How not to test public opinion

Are you related to Edward III - and Danny Dyer?

WS More or Less: Good news on renewables?

Pensioners aren't poor anymore

WS More or Less: Avoiding Asteroids

Is dementia the number one killer?

WS More or Less: Liberia’s Rape Statistic Debunked

US election, stray cats and puzzles

WS More or Less: Ice Cream versus aid

Trump tells the Truth

WS More or Less: Child Marriage, Dangerous Algorithms

WS More or Less: Escobar’s Cocaine Deaths

WS More or Less: Algorithms, Crime and Punishment

WS More or Less: The Sustainable Development Goals – are there just too many?

WS More or Less: Who Won the US Presidential Debate?

WS More or Less: Trump’s crime claims

WS More or Less: Wedding gift economics

WS More or Less: Drug deaths in the Philippines

WS More or Less: Menstrual Syncing

Irish Passports

Death Penalty abolition

Gender Pay Gap

WS More or Less: Counting Terror Deaths

Counting Terror Deaths

WS More or Less: Swimming World Records

Grammar Schools

WS More or Less: Predicting Olympic Medals

Plastic Bags

WS More or Less: Odd Socks and Algorithms

The Supermarket Effect

WS More or Less: Ireland’s Shock GDP figures

WS More or Less: Violence, shootings and the police in the US

WS More or Less: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

Ranking Iceland’s Football Team

WS More or Less: Brexit Economics

WS More or Less: When Companies Track Your Life

The Referendum by Numbers: Trade

The Referendum by Numbers: Regulation

The Referendum by Numbers: Law

The Referendum by Numbers: Immigration

The Referendum by Numbers: The Cost of EU Membership

WS More or Less: Sexist Data Crisis

WS More or Less: HIV in Africa

WS More or Less: Refugee Camp Statistics

WS More or Less: The World's Most Profitable Product

WS More or Less: The world’s most diverse city

WS More or Less: Leicester City football fluke?

The most profitable product in history

WS More or Less: Simpson’s Paradox

EU Migration

WS More or Less: Most Expensive Building

Brexit numbers

WS More or Less: The life expectancy of a Pope

Celebrity deaths

WS More or Less: The story of average

Fathers and babies

WS More or Less: The Great EU Cabbage Myth

The Great EU Cabbage Myth

WSMoreOrLess: Safe drinking

WSMoreOrLess: Mobiles or lightbulbs

WSMoreOrLess: Can we trust food surveys?

WSMoreOrLess: Fact checking The Big Short

WSMoreOrLess: Antibiotics and the problem of the broken market

WSMoreOrLess: When £10,000 isn’t a good incentive

WSMoreOrLess: Fishy numbers?

Selfies, sugar daddies and dodgy surveys

WSMoreOrLess: Do e-cigarettes really harm your chances of quitting smoking?

E-cigarettes: Can They Help People Quit?

Swedish refugees

How harmful is alcohol?

WSMoreOrLess: Oxfam and Wealth Inequality

Billionaires versus the world

WS MoreOrLess: Gravitational Waves

Weekend Stroke Deaths

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015: Part Three

Flood Defence Spending

WSMoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 2

Numbers of the Year 2015

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year 2015 Part 1

WS MoreOrLess: How Many Stormtroopers are there?

WS MoreOrLess:100 Year Floods?

WS MoreOrLess: Climate Change

WS MoreOrLess: '‘Sympathy’ for jihadis

WS MoreOrLess: Has Islamic State been Losing Territory?

WS MoreOrLess: Creativity and Mental Illness

WS MoreOrLess: China's One Child Policy

WS MoreOrLess: Processed Meat and Cancer

WS MoreOrLess: Oil

WS MoreOrLess: Foreign Aid: More Harm Than Good?

WS MoreOrLess: Are Tall People More Likely to Get Cancer?

WS MoreOrLess: Football’s Red Card Cliché

WS MoreOrLess: How Reliable is Psychology Science?

Alzheimers, Psychology science, John Conway, Red cards, Decimate

WS MoreOrLess: The Rise of the Giants?

Striking Numbers

WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?

Is it worth targetting non-voters?

Queuing Backwards

Fit for work or at deaths door?

WS MoreOrLess: China Stock Market Crash

China Stock Market Crash

WS MoreOrLess: The Elliptical Pool Table

Soaring diabetes - is there some good news?

WS More or Less: Worm wars

Migrant Crisis

WS More or Less: Wrestlers - dying too young?

WSMoreOrLess: Counting Foreign Fighters

WS MoreOrLess: Life Expectancy

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

Greece Special

Biggest Movies

WS MoreOrLess: Horoscope Health

WS MoreOrLess: Global Footprint

Obesity Projections, Global Footprint, Street Value of Drugs

WS MoreOrLess: Qatar migrant worker deaths

World Cup Migrant Deaths

WS MoreOrLess: John Nash

Seven-day NHS

WS MoreOrLess: Death Penalty

Female Drink Drivers

WS MoreOrLess: Big Numbers

Strokes, Teachers, Confused Computers 15 May15

WS MoreOrLess: Princess Charlotte

Election and Adultery Special

UK election podcast 4

WS MoreOrLess: Nuns on the rise

Polls, nuns and life partners

WS MoreOrLess: Xenophobia in South Africa

UK Election Podcast 3

WS MoreOrLess: Liver Transplant.

UK election podcast 2

UK election podcast 1

WS MoreOrLess: The Ignorance Test

WS MoreOrLess: Maths and Chess

WS MoreOrLess: How safe is flying?

Does Breastfeeding Increase IQ?

WS MoreOrLess: Measuring World Health

WS MoreOrLess: The future of food

WS MoreOrLess: Black prisoners in the US

WS MoreOrLess: Sleeping: the 8-hour myth

The mathematical secrets to relationships

WS MoreOrLess: Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

Is strenuous jogging bad for you?

WS MoreOrLess: The maths of dating

Cameron’s 1000 jobs

WS MoreOrLess: Global Wealth

Is anti-Semitism widespread in the UK?

WS MoreOrLess: Are 95% of Terrorism Victims Muslim?

How big are the Conservatives' planned cuts?

WS MoreOrLess: Bad Luck and Cancer

A&E waiting times

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 3.

Numbers of the Year 2014.

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 2.

WS MoreOrLess: Numbers of the Year part 1.

WS MoreOrLess: Soviet World War Deaths

WS MoreOrLess: Zimbabwe's Economy

Teenage Pregnancy

WS MoreOrLess: Caps off to Rooney

WS MoreOrLess: Pregnancy and Homicide

Tracking and Tackling Ebola

WS MoreOrLess: Kidney Donation

Screening for Ebola

WS MoreOrLess: Big Data

Species in Decline?

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

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

The Barnett Formula

WS MoreOrLess: The UK vs Mississippi

Kidney donation: the chance of finding a match

Shakespeare vs Rappers

Scottish referendum polls

WS MoreOrLess: To ice or not to ice?

To ice or not to ice?

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

How Deadly Is Ebola?

WS MoreOrLess: Deaths in Gaza

Troubled families?

WS MoreOrLess: Anti-Semitism

Student Loans

WS MoreOrLess: Ebola

WS MoreOrLess: Fear of Flying

WS MoreOrLess: The prevalence of paedophilia?

WS MoreOrLess: The Tour de France

WS MoreOrLess: Golden Ticket

Will we die before our parents?

WS MoreOrLess: Is this the greatest world cup ever?

WS MoreOrLess: Money for nothing?

WS MoreOrLess: Heads Or Tails?

Faith and Charity?

WS MoreOrLess: 'Spurious Correlations'

What's Scottish Independence Worth?

WS MoreOrLess: The Piketty Affair

The Piketty Affair

WS MoreOrLess: Risk Savvy

Romanian Crime

WS MoreOrLess: Did global poverty halve overnight?

Tax Dodgers and Benefits Cheats

WS MoreOrLess: Brazil’s Maths Superstar

Food Bank Britain

Sir Roger Bannister's ‘impossible’ feat

British Law - Made in Brussels?

Killed for being female?

Magic Numbers

Nigeria - rich or poor?

Freedom in Numbers

Is London France’s sixth largest city?

Missing planes

Mailbox edition

WS MoreOrLess: Modern Slavery

The 10,000 hours rule

WS MoreOrLess: Neknomination Outbreak

Love by numbers

Rising drug overdose deaths

WS MoreOrLess: Immigration

The 50p tax rate

WS MoreOrLess: Alcohol risk

Immigration

WS MoreOrLess: An apple-a-day

Obesity crisis?

WS MoreOrLess: Counting the Dead in Iraq

The week that kills

WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 2

Pension Charges

WS MoreOrLess: The numbers of 2013 - part 1

Numbers of the year

WS MoreOrLess: Wine shortage?

Britain's 80,000 homeless children

WS MoreOrLess: Genocide in South Africa?

WS MoreOrLess: Testing the PISA test

Football Ranking Mysteries Explained

WS MoreOrLess: Could statistics cure cancer?

WS MoreOrLess: Sachin Tendulkar - best batsman of all time?

WS MoreOrLess: Does politics make us get our sums wrong?

100,000 Christian martyrs?

WS MoreOrLess: Fertility - when is too late?

WS MoreOrLess: Nobel Prize puzzle

The Hawthorne Effect

WS MoreOrLess: Mosquitoes and elephants

Underage drinking

WS MoreOrLess: Population explosion?

NHS hospital deaths

Formula 1 racing risk

Do free school meals work?

Sexual violence statistics in Asia

Fertility: when is too late?

The death toll in Syria

The Death Toll in Syria

Counting climate migrants

What price the life of a badger?

Is coffee bad for you?

The magic of maths

Where could we fit the entire world’s population?

What is the most visited country in the world?

Chris Froome's Tour de France victory

Egypt: Biggest protest in history?

Sex and the world wide web

How long will you live?

Will 40% of the world's workforce really be in Africa by 2050?

Is a child dying of hunger every 15 seconds?

Sex on the Brain?

A&E, and the chances of having twins

The maths of spies and terrorists

The maths of spies and terrorists

Ryanair punctuality; mistakes in academic papers

The economics of Scottish independence

Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk

Angelina Jolie’s 87% cancer risk

How old is your dog?

How much does the EU cost the UK? Plus, dog years

The Maths of Mozart and Birds

Birds, Mozart, austerity, Thatcher

Are Man Utd a one-man team?

Austerity: a spreadsheet error?

Thatcher in numbers

Communicating Risk

That's not much gold

Can big data save lives?

Are there more black men in college or prison in the US?

HIV in numbers

Is the Kenyan election already decided?

Counting Catholics

How many people support Manchester United?

The end of the Penny

A case of statistical significance in Greece

Fat or Fiction

WS MoreOrLess: Indian Farmer Suicides

Pop up economics

Food waste and Scrabble

The Parable of the Ox

The Parable of the Ox

Numbers of 2012

Numbers of 2012

Gun Statistics

Fact-checking US gun crime statistics

WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?

The Census and what does 'rare' mean?

World Service: Africa GDP & Royal twins

Radio 4: Royal Twins & Autumn Statement

More or Less: How reliable is Kevin Pietersen?

More or Less: Opinion polling, Kevin Pietersen, and stacking Lego

Fergie Time

Ash Die Back and Fergie Time

Brain Food and Bacteria

Voodoo polling? Predicting the US election

Is America’s conviction rate really 99.5%?