9 October 2024

Available for over a year

Are childhood obesity rates going down?

Do 35 million birds die every year in the UK after hitting windows?

How much money could the Chancellor find by changing the debt rule?

And Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter contemplates the probability of his own conception.

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news, and in life.

Presenter: Tim Harford

Reporter: Charlotte McDonald

Producers: Bethan Ashmead Latham, Natasha Fernandes and Nathan Gower

Series producer: Tom Colls

Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison

Sound mix: Neil Churchill

Editor: Richard Vadon