Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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 Friday.

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Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks - with Katie Prescott

Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks - with Katie Prescott

Mike Lynch was often lauded as Britain's answer to Bill Gates. Born into a working-class family, Lynch's incredible intellect and passion for computers led him to become a billionaire tech entrepreneu...

1 Maj 40min

Finding Grace in a Burger Bun: An Incrediburgible Quest

Finding Grace in a Burger Bun: An Incrediburgible Quest

Dick and Mac are content with their lives: they enjoy making burgers by day and stargazing by night. Ray Kroc is a workaholic chasing success at any cost. When the brothers' relaxed approach to busine...

24 Apr 40min

Run, Switzer, Run: The Women who Broke the Marathon Taboo (Classic)

Run, Switzer, Run: The Women who Broke the Marathon Taboo (Classic)

Tim is running the London Marathon on the 26th of April. To give him a week off to finish training, we're playing this running-themed classic from the archives. If you would like to donate to Teenage ...

17 Apr 36min

The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game

The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game

In 1860, police officer Robert O'Hara Burke plans an expedition to map the mysterious blank in the centre of Australia. Joining him is scientist William Wills, and a ragtag team of hires. Burke falls ...

10 Apr 39min

The Refugee Who Led a Software Revolution - with Ben Walter

The Refugee Who Led a Software Revolution - with Ben Walter

Millionaire-making tech start-ups are most often associated with Silicon Valley. But this software revolution begins on a woman’s kitchen table in rural Britain in the 1960s. Steve Shirley faced extra...

7 Apr 27min

The Mad Mystic and the Last Battle on English Soil - with Ian Breckon

The Mad Mystic and the Last Battle on English Soil - with Ian Breckon

As the Victorian era dawns, modernisation erodes the old ways of life and poverty rises. In the unrest, an unlikely hero emerges, capturing the imagination of the countryside's working class. He claim...

3 Apr 43min

The Sightseeing Flight and the Invisible Mountain

The Sightseeing Flight and the Invisible Mountain

In November 1979, Flight 901 departs New Zealand on a sightseeing journey over Antarctica, heading directly towards a volcano. When the plane vanishes, investigators are left with a mystery: how could...

27 Mars 39min

Presenting: Drug Story - On Xanax and Anxiety

Presenting: Drug Story - On Xanax and Anxiety

This episode comes to you from the new podcast Drug Story, which investigates the origins, workings and cautionary tales behind today's medical interventions. In this episode, host Thomas Goetz invest...

20 Mars 46min

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