Podcast Corner: Digging deep to explain the Covid statistics

Here are two new podcasts worth checking out from Irish comedians Colm O'Regan and Alison Spittle 

Colm O'Regan's podcast delves into the statistics we hear around Covid. 

Colm O'Regan, radio broadcaster, novelist, and Irish Examiner columnist, adds podcaster to his CV with The Function Room, a show about the maths behind the daily coronavirus numbers and the world at large. 

It turns out that O'Regan, whose children pose the hardest questions such as when do numbers end, could have had civil engineer among his job titles instead. "Even though the maths was really hard and I wasn't very good at it, I got lost in the maths, sometimes in a bad way," he explains - but often in a good way, figuring out how gadgets, and the world at large, works.