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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
163 episodes
1 week 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 (20/163)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Man who Solved Kindness
6 days ago
37 minutes

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

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

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot
3 weeks 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
1 month ago
43 minutes

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

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

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

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

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

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Presenting: You Must Remember This - Alfred Hitchcock
2 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
2 months ago
39 minutes

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Old Man and the Wrecking Crew
3 months ago
38 minutes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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