Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
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.
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117 episoder
DOUBLE BILL: When a Plague Struck World of Warcraft/Blood on the Tracks
2023-01-06 • 34min
"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds
2023-01-03 • 29min
The Company That Cancelled Christmas
2022-12-09 • 35min
The Wild Turkeys of Schleswig
2022-11-25 • 39min
Cautionary Conversation: The Blitz Spirit and the Blackout Ripper
2022-11-18 • 32min
The Inventor Who Almost Ended the World
2022-11-11 • 36min
The Halloween Poisoner
2022-10-28 • 35min
Cautionary Conversation: The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind
2022-10-21 • 41min
Cautionary Tales Presents: Warfare, The Life of Anne Frank
2022-10-14 • 41min
The Online Date That's Too Good to be True
2022-10-07 • 37min
A Leap of Faith From the Eiffel Tower
2022-09-23 • 33min
Cautionary Conversation: Flying on Empty
2022-09-09 • 32min
Tim Talks Bicycles with Patented
2022-09-02 • 38min
"You’re Not Howard Hughes!"
2022-08-26 • 35min
"Who would you dine with? Scott or Amundsen?" Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford in Discussion.
2022-08-19 • 25min
South Pole Race: When the Limeys Get Scurvy
2022-08-12 • 33min
The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
2022-08-05 • 45min
South Pole Race: “Mummy, is Amundsen a good man?”
2022-07-29 • 35min
South Pole Race: David and Goliath on Ice
2022-07-15 • 33min
Chicago When It Sizzles
2022-07-01 • 38min
The French Knight’s Guide to Corporate Culture
2022-06-17 • 36min
Frankenstein Versus the Volcano
2022-06-03 • 34min
Bless the Coal-black Hearts of the Broadway Critics
2022-05-20 • 33min
Monkey for Mayor from This Day in Esoteric Political History
2022-05-13 • 28min
When the Autopilot Switched Off
2022-05-06 • 33min
Cautionary Tales Presents: World's Greatest Con
2022-04-29 • 1h 12min
Photographing Fairies
2022-04-22 • 37min
Tim Joins ‘No Such Thing As A Fish'
2022-04-15 • 57min
The False Dawn of the Electric Car
2022-04-08 • 37min
The Balloons That Ate Cleveland (A Cautionary Tales Short)
2022-03-25 • 18min
Death on the Dance Floor
2022-03-25 • 36min
Cautionary Tales Returns Every Other Friday from March 25th
2022-03-11 • 3min
The Mummy’s Curse
2021-10-29 • 36min
The Truth About Hansel and Gretel
2021-10-22 • 36min
Do NOT Pass GO!
2021-05-28 • 35min
Wrong Tools Cost Lives
2021-05-21 • 33min
Fritterin’ Away Genius
2021-05-14 • 36min
The Fan Who Infected a Movie Star
2021-05-07 • 31min
Whistleblower on the 28th Floor
2021-04-30 • 31min
Masterly Inactivity Versus Micromanaging
2021-04-23 • 32min
Demonizing Dungeons & Dragons
2021-04-16 • 36min
Number Fever: How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop
2021-04-09 • 35min
The Curse of Knowledge Meets The Valley of Death
2021-04-02 • 33min
The Dunning Kruger Hijack (and Other Criminally Stupid Acts)
2021-03-26 • 33min
Catching a KiIler Doctor
2021-03-19 • 33min
The Art Forger, the Nazi, and "The Pope"
2021-03-12 • 35min
Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
2021-03-05 • 36min
Martin Luther King Jr, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking
2021-02-26 • 35min
Bonus: Why We Believe What Isn't True (with Axios Today)
2021-02-12 • 14min
The Data Detective
2021-02-02 • 34min