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African trade tariffs, Alcohol safe limits, President Trump's popularity

Tim Harford fact-checks EU trade deals with Africa, and whether one drink is one too many.

• 28 mins

Heart age calculator; Danish sperm imports; The size of the services sector; The 'safest car on the road'; Counting goats.

Tim Harford questions the usefulness of a popular heart age calculator.

• 28 mins

Male suicide, School ratings, Are female tennis players treated unfairly by umpires?

Tim Harford on what statistics tell us about suicide, good schools and sexism in tennis.

• 26 mins

How many schoolchildren are carers? Counting shareholder income, Museum visitors vs football fans

Tim Harford on child carers, shareholder income, football, museums and dangerous sports.

• 26 mins

Surviving the Battle of Britain, The World Cup and domestic violence, Buckfast and arrests in Scotland

Tim Harford on Spitfire pilots, and whether football triggers violence in the home.

• 24 mins

Loneliness, School funding, Same-sex divorce

Tim Harford on a 大象传媒 loneliness survey, school funding, same-sex divorce, loyal listeners.

• 28 mins

Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

Tim Harford on sugar, train fares, children's outdoors play and Earth's closest neighbour.

• 28 mins

Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

Tim Harford asks whether 1.7% of people are intersex, and examines false claims about MPs.

• 28 mins

Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

Tim Harford on domestic violence, employment numbers, and the chance of a white Easter.

• 28 mins

Holocaust deniers, Venezuelan hyperinflation, Tinder likes

Tim Harford on Holocaust deniers, food prices in Venezuela and dating app statistics.

• 28 mins

Teen suicide, Brexit business moves, Wood-burner pollution

Tim Harford on teen suicide, Brexit business moves and wood-burner pollution

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Climate change, Victorian diseases, Alcohol

Tim Harford on climate change, Victorian diseases, maths mistakes and alcohol consumption.

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Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

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Nurses, flatmates and cats

We look into sobering statistics about nurses and some curious claims about house-sharing.

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Sex, coal, missing people and mice

Are we having less sex? And what happened to coal? (These items are unrelated.)

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Heart deaths, organised crime and gender data gaps

Are more people dying from coronary disease? Plus how we need more economic data on women.

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Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

The stats behind making a successful song, plus misunderstanding Victorian court records.

• 28 mins

Hay Festival Special

What does it mean to say that the UK is the fifth largest economy in the world?

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Are married women flipping miserable?

Measuring happiness, university access in Scotland, plus will one in two get cancer?

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Exam grades, Chernobyl, Ethiopian trees

Was your A-level grade correct? Plus were 350m trees planted in one day in Ethiopia?

• 24 mins

Amazon fires, State pension, American burgers

Are forest fires in Brazil the worst in recent times? What is the state pension worth?

• 28 mins

Climate deaths, Austerity, Pet food

Challenging the idea of six billion deaths due to climate change; plus what pets eat.

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Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music

Are black women five times more likely to die in childbirth? Plus making pop music.

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Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

Health risks for presidential hopefuls, falling inflation, shark deaths and salary claims

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Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning.

Has Austerity caused 120 thousand deaths in the UK and does God hate men?

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New hospitals promised, Aid to Ukraine, Bacon sandwiches

Dissecting the government鈥檚 hospitals announcement and President Trump鈥檚 Ukraine claims.

• 28 mins

Election Special (1/2)

50,000 nurses? 40 hospitals? Corporate tax rises? Tim Harford looks at Election pledges.

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Election Special (2/2)

Labour spending plans, Conservative claims on homelessness, the SNP's education record.

• 28 mins

Australian Animal Deaths, Carbon Emissions, Election Mystery

How many animals have died in Australia and how many Labour voters went Conservative?

• 28 mins

Going, going Ghosn

Quantifying justice in Japan, the cost of Brexit, alligator speed and Liverpool FC's luck

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