Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

A podcast by Pushkin Industries - Fridays

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139 Episodes

  1. Adidas v Puma: A Battle of Boots and Brothers

    Published: 6/21/2024
  2. The Revenge of the Whales

    Published: 6/7/2024
  3. When the Robots Take Over... - Cautionary Questions

    Published: 5/24/2024
  4. WW2: How Britain Ignored the Mother of All Secrets

    Published: 5/10/2024
  5. The Fraudster's Guide to Magic Money

    Published: 4/26/2024
  6. Blood and Gold (with Dan Snow)

    Published: 4/23/2024
  7. The Rise and Fall of a Megalomaniac

    Published: 4/12/2024
  8. Inside the Bizarre World of Dictators

    Published: 3/29/2024
  9. Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day

    Published: 3/20/2024
  10. Do Nothing, Then Do Less

    Published: 3/15/2024
  11. Buried Evil: V2 Rocket (Part 3)

    Published: 3/1/2024
  12. Into the Black Lair: V2 Rocket (Part 2)

    Published: 2/16/2024
  13. Supersonic Nazi Vengeance: V2 Rocket (Part 1)

    Published: 2/2/2024
  14. Tenerife: The Most Deadly Air Disaster

    Published: 1/30/2024
  15. Martin Luther King, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking (Classic)

    Published: 1/19/2024
  16. DANGER: Rocks Ahead! (Classic)

    Published: 1/5/2024
  17. When Stalin Killed the Weekend (with The Happiness Lab)

    Published: 12/22/2023
  18. How the Radium Girls Fought Back

    Published: 12/8/2023
  19. Glowing Peril: The Magical Glitter That Poisoned a City

    Published: 11/24/2023
  20. George Washington's Beard of Beetles (with The Dollop)

    Published: 11/17/2023

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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.