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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A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)
2023-07-21 • 42min
When Parakeets Plundered New York
2023-07-14 • 36min
The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon
2023-07-07 • 35min
The Man Who Played With Hurricanes
2023-06-23 • 38min
Cautionary Tales Presents: Lost Hills - The Dark Prince
2023-06-15 • 42min
Sonic Poison? The Genesis of Havana Syndrome
2023-06-09 • 37min
Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions
2023-05-26 • 37min
The Man Who Bet His House on a Pop Song - A Eurovision Tale
2023-05-12 • 31min
The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day
2023-04-28 • 39min
The True Scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
2023-04-14 • 37min
What if Terrorists Could Weaponize Covid?
2023-04-07 • 38min
The Vigilante and the Air Traffic Controller
2023-03-31 • 34min
America's Mata Hari? The Double Life of Esther Reed
2023-03-24 • 36min
Office Hell: the Demise of the Playful Workspace
2023-03-17 • 38min
La La Land: Galileo’s Warning (Classic)
2023-03-10 • 30min
The Scientist and the Swindler
2023-03-03 • 37min
The Hero Who Rode His Segway Off a Cliff
2023-02-17 • 35min
The Mummy's Curse (Classic)
2023-02-10 • 37min
The Final Illusion of the Great Lafayette
2023-02-03 • 36min
LIVE: The Myth of the Million Dollar Tulip Bulb
2023-01-20 • 38min
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