Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
By Pushkin Industries
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Category: History
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 10012
Reviews: 56
Episodes: 102
Kuba
Oct 15, 2023
Oct 3, 2023
Aug 16, 2023
Jul 25, 2023
Chris Shaw
Jul 12, 2023
my new favourite podcast
Description
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.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
Glowing Peril: The Magical Glitter That Poisoned a City
|
Nov 24, 2023 |
|
George Washington's Beard of Beetles (with The Dollop)
|
Nov 17, 2023 |
|
Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc
|
Nov 10, 2023 |
|
Cautionary Tales Presents The Dream
|
Nov 06, 2023 |
|
Killers of the Flower Moon: Osage Chief Jim Gray In Conversation
|
Oct 27, 2023 |
|
Oil and Blood: The Osage Murders
|
Oct 20, 2023 |
|
DOUBLE BILL: A Monkey For Mayor / A Screw Loose At 17,000 Feet
|
Oct 13, 2023 |
|
"7000 horses are being flown across space..." - Cautionary Questions #2
|
Sep 29, 2023 |
|
Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History
|
Sep 19, 2023 |
|
A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House
|
Sep 15, 2023 |
|
The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street
|
Sep 01, 2023 |
|
General Ludd's Rage Against the Machines
|
Aug 18, 2023 |
|
Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth
|
Aug 11, 2023 |
|
Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City
|
Aug 04, 2023 |
|
The Father of Space Travel
|
Jul 28, 2023 |
|
A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)
|
Jul 21, 2023 |
|
When Parakeets Plundered New York
|
Jul 14, 2023 |
|
The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon
|
Jul 07, 2023 |
|
The Man Who Played With Hurricanes
|
Jun 23, 2023 |
|
Cautionary Tales Presents: Lost Hills - The Dark Prince
|
Jun 15, 2023 |
|
Sonic Poison? The Genesis of Havana Syndrome
|
Jun 09, 2023 |
|
Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions
|
May 26, 2023 |
|
The Man Who Bet His House on a Pop Song - A Eurovision Tale
|
May 12, 2023 |
|
The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day
|
Apr 28, 2023 |
|
The True Scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
|
Apr 14, 2023 |
|
What if Terrorists Could Weaponize Covid?
|
Apr 07, 2023 |
|
The Vigilante and the Air Traffic Controller
|
Mar 31, 2023 |
|
America's Mata Hari? The Double Life of Esther Reed
|
Mar 24, 2023 |
|
Office Hell: the Demise of the Playful Workspace
|
Mar 17, 2023 |
|
La La Land: Galileo’s Warning (Classic)
|
Mar 10, 2023 |
|
The Scientist and the Swindler
|
Mar 03, 2023 |
|
The Hero Who Rode His Segway Off a Cliff
|
Feb 17, 2023 |
|
The Mummy's Curse (Classic)
|
Feb 10, 2023 |
|
The Final Illusion of the Great Lafayette
|
Feb 03, 2023 |
|
LIVE: The Myth of the Million Dollar Tulip Bulb
|
Jan 20, 2023 |
|
DOUBLE BILL: When a Plague Struck World of Warcraft/Blood on the Tracks
|
Jan 06, 2023 |
|
"Snow Crashing Into The Metaverse" from Imaginary Worlds
|
Jan 03, 2023 |
|
The Company That Cancelled Christmas
|
Dec 09, 2022 |
|
The Wild Turkeys of Schleswig
|
Nov 25, 2022 |
|
Cautionary Conversation: The Blitz Spirit and the Blackout Ripper
|
Nov 18, 2022 |
|
The Inventor Who Almost Ended the World
|
Nov 11, 2022 |
|
The Halloween Poisoner
|
Oct 28, 2022 |
|
Cautionary Conversation: The Conspiracy Theorist Who Changed His Mind
|
Oct 21, 2022 |
|
Cautionary Tales Presents: Warfare, The Life of Anne Frank
|
Oct 14, 2022 |
|
The Online Date That's Too Good to be True
|
Oct 07, 2022 |
|
A Leap of Faith From the Eiffel Tower
|
Sep 23, 2022 |
|
Cautionary Conversation: Flying on Empty
|
Sep 09, 2022 |
|
Tim Talks Bicycles with Patented
|
Sep 02, 2022 |
|
"You’re Not Howard Hughes!"
|
Aug 26, 2022 |
|
"Who would you dine with? Scott or Amundsen?" Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford in Discussion.
|
Aug 19, 2022 |
|
South Pole Race: When the Limeys Get Scurvy
|
Aug 12, 2022 |
|
The Bowery Boys and the Black Tom Explosion
|
Aug 05, 2022 |
|
South Pole Race: “Mummy, is Amundsen a good man?”
|
Jul 29, 2022 |
|
South Pole Race: David and Goliath on Ice
|
Jul 15, 2022 |
|
Chicago When It Sizzles
|
Jul 01, 2022 |
|
The French Knight’s Guide to Corporate Culture
|
Jun 17, 2022 |
|
Frankenstein Versus the Volcano
|
Jun 03, 2022 |
|
Bless the Coal-black Hearts of the Broadway Critics
|
May 20, 2022 |
|
Monkey for Mayor from This Day in Esoteric Political History
|
May 13, 2022 |
|
When the Autopilot Switched Off
|
May 06, 2022 |
|
Cautionary Tales Presents: World's Greatest Con
|
Apr 29, 2022 |
|
Photographing Fairies
|
Apr 22, 2022 |
|
Tim Joins ‘No Such Thing As A Fish'
|
Apr 15, 2022 |
|
The False Dawn of the Electric Car
|
Apr 08, 2022 |
|
The Balloons That Ate Cleveland (A Cautionary Tales Short)
|
Mar 25, 2022 |
|
Death on the Dance Floor
|
Mar 25, 2022 |
|
Cautionary Tales Returns Every Other Friday from March 25th
|
Mar 11, 2022 |
|
The Mummy’s Curse
|
Oct 29, 2021 |
|
The Truth About Hansel and Gretel
|
Oct 22, 2021 |
|
Do NOT Pass GO!
|
May 28, 2021 |
|
Wrong Tools Cost Lives
|
May 21, 2021 |
|
Fritterin’ Away Genius
|
May 14, 2021 |
|
The Fan Who Infected a Movie Star
|
May 07, 2021 |
|
Whistleblower on the 28th Floor
|
Apr 30, 2021 |
|
Masterly Inactivity Versus Micromanaging
|
Apr 23, 2021 |
|
Demonizing Dungeons & Dragons
|
Apr 16, 2021 |
|
Number Fever: How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop
|
Apr 09, 2021 |
|
The Curse of Knowledge Meets The Valley of Death
|
Apr 02, 2021 |
|
The Dunning Kruger Hijack (and Other Criminally Stupid Acts)
|
Mar 26, 2021 |
|
Catching a KiIler Doctor
|
Mar 19, 2021 |
|
The Art Forger, the Nazi, and "The Pope"
|
Mar 12, 2021 |
|
Florence Nightingale and Her Geeks Declare War on Death
|
Mar 05, 2021 |
|
Martin Luther King Jr, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking
|
Feb 26, 2021 |
|
Bonus: Why We Believe What Isn't True (with Axios Today)
|
Feb 12, 2021 |
|
The Data Detective
|
Feb 02, 2021 |
|
BONUS: Storks, Smoking and the Power of Doubt
|
Sep 16, 2020 |
|
How To End A Pandemic
|
Jul 17, 2020 |
|
That Turn To Pascagoula
|
Jul 10, 2020 |
|
The Village of Heroes
|
Jul 03, 2020 |
|
The Spreadsheet of Life and Death
|
Jun 26, 2020 |
|
A Tsunami of Misery
|
Jun 19, 2020 |
|
Fire at The Beverly Hills Supper Club
|
Jun 12, 2020 |
|
Cautionary Tales Presents: TED Talk Daily
|
Jan 31, 2020 |
|
You Have Reached Your Destination
|
Dec 27, 2019 |
|
Bowie, Jazz and the Unplayable Piano
|
Dec 20, 2019 |
|
How Britain Invented, Then Ignored, Blitzkrieg
|
Dec 13, 2019 |
|
Buried by the Wall Street Crash
|
Dec 06, 2019 |
|
The Deadly Airship Race
|
Nov 29, 2019 |
|
La La Land: Galileo's Warning
|
Nov 22, 2019 |
|
The Rogue Dressed as a Captain
|
Nov 15, 2019 |
|
DANGER: Rocks Ahead!
|
Nov 15, 2019 |
|
Introducing: Cautionary Tales
|
Oct 22, 2019 |