Introduction

Today's guest is the economist tim harford. Tim's a well known medio figure here in the u k. He's a best selling author, newspaper columnist and podcaster. But for the longest he's been best known to me for his excellent b b c radio show. And that's where our conversation started. What will people hear if they stumble over an episode or more or less? We'll go through several numbers have come up in recent days, or recent weeks in the news, and we'll just interrogate them - asking smart questions about where these numbers come fromd and what they mean. So it we're whit sort of current affairs programe. We're trying to