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Hay Festival Special

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

• 27 mins

WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

Does Mount Etna produce more carbon emissions than humans? We check the numbers.

• 9 mins

Are married women flipping miserable?

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

• 23 mins

WS More or Less: The things we fail to see

The hidden influences that a make a big difference to the way the world works.

• 9 mins

WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.

• 9 mins

Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

We fact check the recent TV drama Chernobyl

• 15 mins

Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

We compare how deadly different forms of power generation are.

• 9 mins

Two World Cups: Football and Cricket

We look at numbers involved with the two World Cups going on right now.

• 8 mins

Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?

We look at politicians’ claims that sanctions are to blame for Zimbabwe’s difficulties.

• 8 mins

Missing women from drug trials

How medical testing on just men causes problems.

• 9 mins

Pregnancy prohibitions – the evidence

Taking a statistical look at what expectant mothers should avoid.

• 8 mins

The spread of fact-checking in Africa

With misinformation so easy to spread, how can it be stopped or challenged?

• 8 mins

Immigrant Crime Rate in the US

Do immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans in the United States?

• 8 mins

Mice and mind blowing maths

Re-inserting a caveat and discussing a really cool numbers trick.

• 9 mins

Exam grades, Chernobyl and Ethiopian trees

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

• 24 mins

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

Were millions of trees planted in just one day in Ethiopia?

• 8 mins

Amazon fires, state pension and American burgers

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

• 27 mins

WS More or Less: Amazon forest fires

Are they really 85 percent worse than last year?

• 8 mins

Climate deaths, austerity and pet food

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

• 24 mins

WS More or Less: Deforestation in Brazil

Has it increased significantly since President Bolsonaro took office in January?

• 8 mins

Maternal deaths, taxi driver earnings and statistical pop music

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

• 24 mins

WS More or Less: Cape Town murders

Are eight people a day murdered in Cape Town and is that number unusually high?

• 8 mins

Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

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

• 24 mins

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

Using statistics to compare world records in athletics and swimming.

• 8 mins

Austerity Deaths, C-Sections and being struck by lightning

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

• 23 mins

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

Were a third of those that fought for Britain in WW1 black or Asian?

• 8 mins

New hospitals promised, aid to Ukraine, and bacon sandwiches

Dissecting the government’s hospitals announcement and President Trump’s Ukraine claims.

• 27 mins

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

Are the shocking statistics true? and how do you count people who don't wish to be found?

• 8 mins

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

Exploring how long one identical twin lives after the other twin dies.

• 28 mins

Esther Duflo and women in economics

Discussing Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer’s economics Nobel Prize.

• 20 mins