Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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153 Episodes

  1. Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History

    Published: 9/19/2023
  2. A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House

    Published: 9/15/2023
  3. The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street

    Published: 9/1/2023
  4. General Ludd's Rage Against the Machines

    Published: 8/18/2023
  5. Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth

    Published: 8/11/2023
  6. Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City

    Published: 8/4/2023
  7. The Father of Space Travel

    Published: 7/28/2023
  8. A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)

    Published: 7/21/2023
  9. When Parakeets Plundered New York

    Published: 7/14/2023
  10. The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon

    Published: 7/7/2023
  11. The Man Who Played With Hurricanes

    Published: 6/23/2023
  12. Cautionary Tales Presents: Lost Hills - The Dark Prince

    Published: 6/15/2023
  13. Sonic Poison? The Genesis of Havana Syndrome

    Published: 6/9/2023
  14. Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions

    Published: 5/26/2023
  15. The Man Who Bet His House on a Pop Song - A Eurovision Tale

    Published: 5/12/2023
  16. The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day

    Published: 4/28/2023
  17. The True Scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound

    Published: 4/14/2023
  18. What if Terrorists Could Weaponize Covid?

    Published: 4/7/2023
  19. The Vigilante and the Air Traffic Controller

    Published: 3/31/2023
  20. America's Mata Hari? The Double Life of Esther Reed

    Published: 3/24/2023

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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.