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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
175 episodes
5 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 (20/175)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
True Lies and Genuine Fakes
5 days ago
40 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Stalling for Survival - A Lonely Fight Against a Deadly Medicine
1 week ago
38 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Announcing: The Cautionary Club
2 weeks ago
2 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point
2 weeks ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Paradise Poisoned: How Utopias Fall Apart
3 weeks ago
41 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
"Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
1 month ago
40 minutes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Man who Solved Kindness
2 months 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
3 months ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot
3 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
3 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)
4 months ago
39 minutes

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