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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
159 episodes
3 days ago
We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “The Data Detective”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every Friday.
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We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “The Data Detective”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every Friday.
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Episodes (20/159)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Roosevelt and the Renegade (Panama Disaster 2)
5 days ago
40 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Great Frenchman's Folly (Panama Disaster 1)
1 week ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Lab Leak: Could Smallpox Come Back?
2 weeks ago
37 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
"Dangerously Near to Absolute Perfection"
3 weeks ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Buried by the Wall Street Crash (Classic)
1 month ago
35 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Presenting: You Must Remember This - Alfred Hitchcock
1 month ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
“I love being the person who doesn’t know anything” - Why Steven Levitt has swapped academia for podcasting
1 month ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Old Man and the Wrecking Crew
1 month ago
38 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Houdini: The Phone Call from the Coffin (Part 3)
2 months ago
40 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Houdini's Detective and her 1500 Dead Husbands (Part 2)
2 months ago
41 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Houdini: A Message from the Spirits (Part 1)
2 months ago
43 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Would You Trust a Gangster Nanny? - Cautionary Questions with Rachel Botsman
2 months ago
41 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Lights, Camera, Tax Break
2 months ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Nursery Rhyme That Ruined a Rock Band
3 months ago
38 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Widow Who Disrupted Champagne (with Ben Walter)
3 months ago
20 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Thrill and the Drop: A First Date Rollercoaster
3 months ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Dr. Brinkley's Miracle Cure For Impotence (with Betwixt The Sheets)
3 months ago
38 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Night of the Mugger
3 months ago
42 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Missing on "Dead Mountain": A Cold War Cold Case
4 months ago
46 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)
4 months ago
36 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “The Data Detective”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every Friday.