Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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153 Episodes

  1. The Edinburgh Body Snatchers: Murder at Halloween

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 7/25/2024
  13. Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447

    Published: 7/19/2024
  14. Run, Switzer, Run: The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo

    Published: 7/5/2024
  15. Adidas v Puma: A Battle of Boots and Brothers

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 4/23/2024

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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.