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WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind Jan 19, 2019

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Which planet is closest to Earth?

Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle Jan 18, 2019

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

WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever Jan 12, 2019

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We look at the numbers behind body temperature – what is normal?

Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets Jan 11, 2019

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

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2 Jan 04, 2019

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Helena Merriman with numbers about water shortage, plastic recycling and American jobs.

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1 Dec 29, 2018

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The numbers that made 2018.

Numbers of the Year Part One Dec 28, 2018

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Russian Trolls, a president’s false claims and the amount of Nigerian households that don’t have access to clean drinking water; these all feature in this first instalment of our numbers of the year. We speak to Ben Nimmo, information defence fellow at Atlantic Council’s Digital Defence Lab, Heather Long, the economics correspondent at the Washington Post and Allwell Okpi, researcher and journalist with Africa Check about why they’ve chosen these numbers and why they matter.

Presenter: Lizzy McNeill Producer: Lizzy McNeill

(Image: Montage of numbers. Credit: BBC)

WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa Dec 22, 2018

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What to look out for on Christmas Eve.

WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics Dec 17, 2018

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Are mega-dams really sustainable?

WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks Nov 30, 2018

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Are women more likely to die from a heart attack than men?