BBC Radio Podcasts from Pop-Up Ideas

Simon Garfield: Maps and Mistakes

Simon Garfield discusses the mistakes and deceptions in some of our best-loved maps.

The geographer and polymath Jared Diamond argues that apparently slight differences in...

Professor Jerry Brotton discusses how each period in history gets the map it deserves.

Tim Harford and his guests tell intriguing stories inspired by maps.

Tim Harford reflects on the impact of mankind on the world around us.

Tim Harford is joined by influential counter-insurgency expert David Killcullen.

Financial journalist Gillian Tett describes how she predicted the financial crisis in 2008

Tim Harford is joined by Malcolm Gladwell for the first in this new series of talks.

Tim tells the story of Chris Ferguson who applied game theory to poker and won - big time.

Tim Harford tells the story of Bill Phillips - war hero, engineer, crocodile-hunter,...

Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, an economist who helped America and...

Tim tells the story of Al Roth, who worked out how to create a clearing-house for kidneys.

Tim Harford weaves together economic ideas with remarkable personal histories in some...