Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

A podcast by Pushkin Industries - Fridays

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138 Episodes

  1. Cautionary Tales Presents: Warfare, The Life of Anne Frank

    Published: 10/14/2022
  2. The Online Date That's Too Good to be True

    Published: 10/7/2022
  3. A Leap of Faith From the Eiffel Tower

    Published: 9/23/2022
  4. Cautionary Conversation: Flying on Empty

    Published: 9/9/2022
  5. Tim Talks Bicycles with Patented

    Published: 9/2/2022
  6. "You’re Not Howard Hughes!"

    Published: 8/26/2022
  7. "Who would you dine with? Scott or Amundsen?" Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford in Discussion.

    Published: 8/19/2022
  8. South Pole Race: When the Limeys Get Scurvy

    Published: 8/12/2022
  9. The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion

    Published: 8/5/2022
  10. South Pole Race: “Mummy, is Amundsen a good man?”

    Published: 7/29/2022
  11. South Pole Race: David and Goliath on Ice

    Published: 7/15/2022
  12. Gladwell on Doctors' Prescriptions, Carbon Copies and the Opioid Crisis.

    Published: 7/8/2022
  13. Chicago When It Sizzles

    Published: 7/1/2022
  14. Cautionary Tales Presents: Hot Money

    Published: 6/24/2022
  15. The French Knight’s Guide to Corporate Culture

    Published: 6/17/2022
  16. A Corvair Cautionary Tale from Car Show

    Published: 6/10/2022
  17. Frankenstein Versus the Volcano

    Published: 6/3/2022
  18. Bless the Coal-black Hearts of the Broadway Critics

    Published: 5/20/2022
  19. Respect the Polygon from Against the Rules

    Published: 5/17/2022
  20. Monkey for Mayor from This Day in Esoteric Political History

    Published: 5/13/2022

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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.