Podcast Episodes

Missing women from drug trials

How medical testing on just men causes problems.

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Zimbabwe’s economy: Are sanctions to blame?

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

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Two World Cups: Football and Cricket

On this week’s More or Less, Ruth Alexander looks at the numbers involved with the two world cups that are going on at the moment.

Are more men than women watching the Women’s World Cup and how accur…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

We questioned the death count of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in last week’s More or Less podcast. In the end, Professor Jim Smith of Portsmouth University came up with an estimate of 15,000 deaths…

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

The recent TV miniseries ‘Chernobyl’ has stirred up debate online about the accuracy of its portrayal of the explosion at a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet state of Ukraine. We fact-check th…

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

WS More or Less: Dealing with the Numbers of Cancer

How one woman used statistics to help cope with cancer.

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

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.

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Are married women flipping miserable?

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

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

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

Published on 6 years, 6 months ago

Hay Festival Special

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

Published on 6 years, 7 months ago