Tim Harford

Calling all curious kids. Tim Harford, economist, broadcaster, journalist, and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s More or Less, needs your help to make sense of a world that doesn’t add up.

His new book, The Truth Detective, introduces heroic truth detectives such as Florence Nightingale, who started a revolution with a pie chart, as well as dastardly villains who trick us with dodgy data and misinformation. You’ll leave with the tools for digging through fake news and bewildering headlines, and an understanding that being smart and savvy about numbers, can help you be smart and savvy about everything else in life too.

Harford is author of nine books, including The Undercover Economist and How To Make The World Add Up, and writer and presenter of the Cautionary Tales podcast, starring Helena Bonham Carter and Jeffrey Wright, which has already reached 10 million downloads. He is also the presenter of the BBC Radio shows More or Less, Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy and How To Vaccinate The World – where his guests included Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates.

Age 9+