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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
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