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.
Episodes
Showing 20 of 90- Treacle Tears: The Boston Molasses Disaster6/26/202640 min
- The Thief, the Jewels, and the Dublin Castle Conspiracy6/19/202641 min
- The Dunning Canoe-ger Effect6/12/202639 min
- Presenting...This is History: A Dynasty to Die For6/11/202633 min
- How Civilizations Die - with Paul Cooper6/5/202641 min
- Can You Make a Sherman Tank Float?5/29/202640 min
- The Inventor who Almost Ended the World (Classic)5/22/202637 min
- From Drilled: The Carbon Gold Rush5/19/202628 min
- Angels, Gold and Lust: John Dee and the Philosopher's Stone (Part 2)5/15/202647 min
- The Queen's Astrologer: The Price of Prophecy (Part 1)5/8/202643 min
- Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks - with Katie Prescott5/1/202641 min
- Finding Grace in a Burger Bun: An Incrediburgible Quest4/24/202641 min
- Run, Switzer, Run: The Women who Broke the Marathon Taboo (Classic)4/17/202637 min
- The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game4/10/202639 min
- The Refugee Who Led a Software Revolution - with Ben Walter4/7/202628 min
- The Mad Mystic and the Last Battle on English Soil - with Ian Breckon4/3/202644 min
- The Sightseeing Flight and the Invisible Mountain3/27/202640 min
- Presenting: Drug Story - On Xanax and Anxiety3/20/202646 min
- "And it went click" - Dawn of the Working Dead3/13/202641 min
- Explosives or Sugar? The Deadly Art of Distraction in Putin’s Russia - with Helena Merriman3/6/202642 min