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Catching Chess Cheats with Data

A cheating scandal is rocking the world of chess - and data is at its heart

• 8 mins

Ben Bernanke and the magic of banking

Tim Harford explains the work of this year鈥檚 Nobel Economics Prize winners

• 10 mins

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

We look into a claim that 50% of new books in the US sell just a handful of copies.

• 8 mins

Can China鈥檚 GDP data be trusted?

Are China鈥檚 most recent figures for economic growth wrong?

• 8 mins

Lula鈥檚 鈥渮ero deforestation鈥� plan for the Amazon

How much of the rainforest has been lost? And can Brazil鈥檚 new president save it?

• 8 mins

Improving the numbers in the news

Tim Harford discusses the role statistics should play in the reporting of the news

• 8 mins

Bonus Episode: Understand the Economy

Tim Harford brings you the first episode of his new podcast and explains inflation

• 14 mins

A $220 billion World Cup?

Has hosting the FIFA football World Cup really cost Qatar $220bn?

• 8 mins

When do food shortages become a famine?

With Somalia in crisis, we ask how data is used to officially declare a famine

• 8 mins

The World Cup: how many migrant workers have died?

Examining the wildly varying estimates of deaths in the run-up to the tournament in Qatar

• 10 mins

Why are data so important in determining how we live?

How good policies depend on the availability of reliable statistics

• 8 mins

Qatar World Cup: the pressure of penalties

We analyse World Cup penalty data to ask what boosts the chance of scoring from the spot

• 8 mins

Numbers of the Year 2022

Tim Harford and guests on the numbers that help tell the big stories of the year.

• 8 mins

Irish pubs - a global numbers game

Are there more Irish pubs in Ireland than in all other countries combined?

• 10 mins

Can China's data on covid deaths be trusted?

Is China under-reporting data on Covid related deaths?

• 9 mins

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

How many people may be dying because of treatment delays in the NHS?

• 28 mins

How we shook the world of very large numbers

How an edition of More or Less influenced the naming of enormous numbers

• 8 mins

Ambulance response times, teacher pay and Irish pubs

How long are people really waiting when they call 999 for an ambulance?

• 29 mins

Does toilet paper cause 15% of global deforestation?

We investigate the impact of our use of toilet paper on the world鈥檚 forests.

• 8 mins

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

We fact check Jeremy Hunt鈥檚 pledge to halve inflation

• 28 mins

Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

Are wild mammals only 4% of the mammal population?

• 10 mins

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

We examine a claim that the UK鈥檚 trade with the EU has increased since Brexit

• 28 mins

Hannah Fry on using shopping data to detect ovarian cancer

The mathematician discusses a study that suggests loyalty card data could signal cancer.

• 9 mins

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

How much should we trust the IMF鈥檚 forecasts for the UK?

• 28 mins

Spreadsheet disasters

The long and costly history of spreadsheet mistakes

• 10 mins

Nurses' pay, ambulance times and forgotten female economists

We look at how much nurses in the UK are paid compared with those in Europe.

• 28 mins

Florence Nightingale and how she visualised data

Tim Harford discusses the power of the nurse statistician鈥檚 groundbreaking diagrams

• 10 mins

Reoffending rates, Welsh taxes and the menopause

Tim Harford and team fact check a government claim about falling reoffending rates

• 29 mins

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

We explore the environmental consequences of our thirst for coffee

• 10 mins

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

We debunk a claim that the UK has by far the highest energy prices in Europe

• 28 mins