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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
171 episodes
1 day 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 (20/171)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
"Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
1 week ago
40 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Office Hell: The Demise of the Playful Workspace (Classic)
2 weeks ago
38 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Number Fever: How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop (Classic)
3 weeks ago
35 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Fire at The Beverly Hills Supper Club (Update)
4 weeks ago
32 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
"Captain Kirk Forgot to put the Machine on Stun"
1 month ago
40 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
"I get in trouble when I say things like this" - Michael Lewis on Sam Bankman-Fried
1 month ago
45 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Grand Theft Automated: How to Save a Trillion Lives
1 month ago
38 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Man who Solved Kindness
1 month ago
37 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Shark That Ate Hollywood: Jaws at 50
2 months ago
38 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Le Mans 55: The Deadliest Race
2 months ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot
2 months ago
40 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Give Politicians a Raise, Smuggle Smartphones into School, and go Full Donk! Cautionary Questions with Risky Business
2 months ago
43 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Roosevelt and the Renegade (Panama Disaster 2)
3 months ago
40 minutes

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

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

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

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

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Presenting: You Must Remember This - Alfred Hitchcock
4 months 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
4 months ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Old Man and the Wrecking Crew
4 months ago
38 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.