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BBC Radio 4 2064 - Are carrots becoming less nutritious?

Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life.

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Published 19 Sep 2026

Duration 08:58

Episodes

2064-

Are carrots becoming less nutritious?

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19 Sep 2026

2063-

Are bad teeth the number one reason kids go to A&E?

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16 Sep 2026

2062-

Could this be the strongest El Niño in 1,000 Years?

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12 Sep 2026

2061-

Why are so many ex-prisoners being sent back to prison?

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09 Sep 2026

2060-

Is every card shuffle unique?

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05 Sep 2026

2059-

Bonus podcast: Norman Numbers

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04 Sep 2026

2058-

Do Germans really take 19.5 days of sick leave per year?

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29 Aug 2026

2057-

How much of the world isn’t owned by anyone?

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22 Aug 2026

2056-

14 million deaths or zero deaths? The impact of the USAID cuts

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15 Aug 2026

2055-

How much of all the money in the world does Elon Musk have?

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08 Aug 2026

2054-

Would you take £50,000 or a 50/50 chance of £1m?

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01 Aug 2026

2053-

Is crime in London ‘through the roof’?

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25 Jul 2026

2052-

Benefits v minimum wage: Which pays more?

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24 Jun 2026

2051-

Is the US worse than North Korea for malnutrition deaths?

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20 Jun 2026

2050-

Does Europe suffer more heat deaths than the US?

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17 Jun 2026

2049-

Andrew Ross Sorkin: What can the Great Crash of 1929 tell us about today?

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13 Jun 2026

2048-

Education, Education, Education (and Immigration)

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10 Jun 2026

2047-

Factchecking claims that 400 churches were burned to the ground in France

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06 Jun 2026

2046-

Debunking the claim that migrants will get half of new homes

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03 Jun 2026

2045-

The known unknowns of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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30 May 2026

2044-

Does a fall in the UK's healthy life expectancy mean what you think it means?

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27 May 2026

2043-

Is the ‘loneliness epidemic’ real?

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23 May 2026

2042-

Are refugees more likely to commit crime?

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20 May 2026

2041-

Erdos Problem 1196: Can AI now solve maths that no human can?

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16 May 2026

2040-

Why it’s wrong to say vaping is as bad for you as smoking

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09 May 2026

2039-

Does it take 15,000 litres of water to produce a kilogram of beef?

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02 May 2026

2038-

Have RFK and MAHA really changed American views on vaccines?

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25 Apr 2026

2037-

Examining the numbers behind Andy Burnham’s ‘Manchester Miracle’

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01 Jul 2026

2036-

The messy history behind the modern calendar

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27 Jul 2025

2035-

How much luck do you need to win the World Cup?

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18 Jul 2026

2034-

Does playing tennis make you live 9.7 years longer?

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11 Jul 2026

2033-

Does the average teacher really earn £54,000?

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08 Jul 2026

2032-

Does a full moon make crime rates go up?

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04 Jul 2026

2031-

The case of the missing US data

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27 Sep 2025

2030-

How weird was the Mediterranean Sea heatwave?

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16 Aug 2025

2029-

Are abortion numbers rising in the US?

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02 Aug 2025

2028-

Are abortion numbers rising in the US?

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02 Aug 2025

2027-

The mistake in Trump’s tariff formula

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30 Jul 2026

2026-

DOGE, apples and irregular migrants

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12 Mar 2025

2025-

Do US crime statistics miss out the most violent cities?

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23 Oct 2024

2024-

A&E delays and deaths, religious identity in N Ireland and naming the monster numbers

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11 Jan 2023

2023-

Why has Hong Kong’s Covid wave been so bad?

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27 Mar 2022

2022-

Deaths at Home, Supermarket Infections and the Cobra Effect

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27 Jan 2021

2021-

Will the vaccine bring back normal life? GDP and Fishing

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20 Jan 2021

2020-

How effective is one dose of the vaccine?

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13 Jan 2021

2019-

US election: facts or fiction

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24 Oct 2020

2018-

Spanish coronavirus figures and pangolins

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13 Jun 2020

2017-

How much heat do you lose from your head?

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07 Mar 2020

2016-

Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

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25 Mar 2019

2015-

Numbers of the Year Part One

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28 Dec 2018

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