Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
A podcast by Pushkin Industries - Fridays
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153 Episodes
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Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History
Published: 9/19/2023 -
A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House
Published: 9/15/2023 -
The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street
Published: 9/1/2023 -
General Ludd's Rage Against the Machines
Published: 8/18/2023 -
Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth
Published: 8/11/2023 -
Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City
Published: 8/4/2023 -
The Father of Space Travel
Published: 7/28/2023 -
A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)
Published: 7/21/2023 -
When Parakeets Plundered New York
Published: 7/14/2023 -
The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon
Published: 7/7/2023 -
The Man Who Played With Hurricanes
Published: 6/23/2023 -
Cautionary Tales Presents: Lost Hills - The Dark Prince
Published: 6/15/2023 -
Sonic Poison? The Genesis of Havana Syndrome
Published: 6/9/2023 -
Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions
Published: 5/26/2023 -
The Man Who Bet His House on a Pop Song - A Eurovision Tale
Published: 5/12/2023 -
The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day
Published: 4/28/2023 -
The True Scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Published: 4/14/2023 -
What if Terrorists Could Weaponize Covid?
Published: 4/7/2023 -
The Vigilante and the Air Traffic Controller
Published: 3/31/2023 -
America's Mata Hari? The Double Life of Esther Reed
Published: 3/24/2023
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.