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 80- 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
- Flight of the Fantasist: The Race Around the World - Part 22/27/202641 min
- The Philosopher and the Handyman: The Race Around the World - Part 12/20/202639 min
- Presenting... American Criminal: The Great McDonald's Monopoly Heist2/17/202641 min
- Sphygmograph Be Damned: The Science of Love2/13/202642 min
- The Angels, The Stones and The Dead2/6/202639 min
- Powered by Orgasm: The Rise and Fall of a Sex Cult - with Ellen Huet1/30/202641 min
- The WOW Machine Stops (Pt 2)1/23/202640 min
- Shoes, Booze and the Pursuit of Happiness (Pt 1)1/16/202639 min
- Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer Liberated Women1/9/202638 min
- Fritterin' Away Genius (Classic)1/2/202637 min