Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

Should we be surprised Easter Monday was the hottest recorded?

• 28 mins

Nurses, flatmates and cats

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

• 28 mins

Sex, coal, missing people and mice

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

• 28 mins

Heart deaths, organised crime and gender data gaps

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

• 28 mins

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?

• 28 mins

Are married women flipping miserable?

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

• 28 mins

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.

• 28 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.

• 28 mins

Dementia, inflation and shark deaths

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

• 28 mins

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

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

• 28 mins

New hospitals promised, Aid to Ukraine, Bacon sandwiches

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

• 28 mins

Election Special (1/2)

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

• 28 mins

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

• 28 mins

Netflix and Chill

The carbon consequence of streaming, stats on sepsis and stretching Bill Bryson to Pluto

• 28 mins

Coronavirus, emotions and guns

Numbers that matter in measuring outbreaks, smelly stats around scent and more.

• 28 mins

Tracking Terror Suspects

Costing counter-terrorism, interrogating tomatoes, the UK's reading age, politics and GDP

• 28 mins

Coronavirus, Jam, AI and Tomatoes

Covid-19 stats, spreading jam far and wide, cooking with AI, plus James Wong on vegetables

• 28 mins

Coronavirus special

The risks of Covid-19 for different age groups and what restrictions mean for the economy

• 28 mins

Coronavirus deaths, face masks and a potential baby boom

Is the coronavirus death count misleading because of delays in reporting?

• 28 mins

Supermarket stockpiling, A-level results and Covid-19 gender disparity

Is the coronavirus pandemic having a different impact on men and women?

• 28 mins

Comparing countries, the risk to NHS staff, and birdsong

We compare Covid-19 rates around the world. When is the UK going to be past the worst?

• 28 mins

Ethnic minority deaths, climate change and lockdown

Are doctors from ethnic minority backgrounds disproportionately affected by Covid-19?

• 28 mins

Testing truth, fatality rates, obesity risk and trampolines.

Did the UK really carry out 100,000 coronavirus tests in one day?

• 28 mins

Vitamin D, explaining R and the 2 metre rule

Is Vitamin D an under-appreciated weapon in the fight against Covid-19?

• 28 mins

School re-opening, Germany’s Covid success and statistically savvy parrots

Will re-opening some schools put children or their teachers at risk?

• 28 mins