Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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161 Episodes

  1. Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)

    Published: 1/17/2025
  2. Cleared For Take-Off? (Tenerife Air Disaster 1)

    Published: 1/10/2025
  3. Do NOT Pass GO! (Classic)

    Published: 1/3/2025
  4. Demonizing Dungeons & Dragons (Classic)

    Published: 12/20/2024
  5. Captain Coward and the Blame Game

    Published: 12/6/2024
  6. Get Happier, Help Others: Some Good Ideas About Giving

    Published: 12/2/2024
  7. RoboPod and the Perpetual Money Machine - Cautionary Questions 2

    Published: 11/22/2024
  8. Darwin's Grandpa and the Art of Sex Appeal

    Published: 11/8/2024
  9. The Edinburgh Body Snatchers: Murder at Halloween

    Published: 10/25/2024
  10. Cautionary Tales Presents: Death Fraud and Other Risky Business

    Published: 10/14/2024
  11. The Poet Who Toppled The British Empire

    Published: 10/11/2024
  12. Reason, Wrath and Rebellion on the High Seas

    Published: 9/27/2024
  13. Cautionary Tales Presents: You Cannot Save Me From All Things

    Published: 9/17/2024
  14. Steel and Kindness: Clash of the Skyscrapers

    Published: 9/13/2024
  15. The Nice Guy, the Bully and the Kiss

    Published: 9/13/2024
  16. Tim's Tolkien Obsession & Amazon Prime's The Rings of Power

    Published: 8/30/2024
  17. The Human Guinea Pigs of Camp Lazear

    Published: 8/16/2024
  18. Embracing the Escape Fire (with Adam Grant)

    Published: 8/2/2024
  19. Pushkin Goes to the Olympics

    Published: 7/26/2024
  20. Cautionary Tales Presents Vultures from Lost Hills: Dark Canyon

    Published: 7/25/2024

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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 other Friday.