Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
A podcast by Pushkin Industries - Vineri
175 Episoade
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DOUBLE BILL: A Monkey For Mayor / A Screw Loose At 17,000 Feet
Publicat: 13.10.2023 -
"7000 horses are being flown across space..." - Cautionary Questions #2
Publicat: 29.09.2023 -
Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History
Publicat: 19.09.2023 -
A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House
Publicat: 15.09.2023 -
The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street
Publicat: 01.09.2023 -
General Ludd's Rage Against the Machines
Publicat: 18.08.2023 -
Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth
Publicat: 11.08.2023 -
Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City
Publicat: 04.08.2023 -
The Father of Space Travel
Publicat: 28.07.2023 -
A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)
Publicat: 21.07.2023 -
When Parakeets Plundered New York
Publicat: 14.07.2023 -
The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon
Publicat: 07.07.2023 -
The Man Who Played With Hurricanes
Publicat: 23.06.2023 -
Cautionary Tales Presents: Lost Hills - The Dark Prince
Publicat: 15.06.2023 -
Sonic Poison? The Genesis of Havana Syndrome
Publicat: 09.06.2023 -
Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions
Publicat: 26.05.2023 -
The Man Who Bet His House on a Pop Song - A Eurovision Tale
Publicat: 12.05.2023 -
The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day
Publicat: 28.04.2023 -
The True Scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
Publicat: 14.04.2023 -
What if Terrorists Could Weaponize Covid?
Publicat: 07.04.2023
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 Friday.