Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford 

<p>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.</p>

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Title	Date published
Oil and Blood: The Osage Murders	2023-10-20
DOUBLE BILL: A Monkey For Mayor / A Screw Loose At 17,000 Feet	2023-10-13
"7000 horses are being flown across space..." - Cautionary Questions #2	2023-09-29
Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History	2023-09-19
A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House	2023-09-15
The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street	2023-09-01
General Ludd's Rage Against the Machines	2023-08-18
Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth	2023-08-11
Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City	2023-08-04
The Father of Space Travel	2023-07-28
A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)	2023-07-21
When Parakeets Plundered New York	2023-07-14
The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon	2023-07-07
The Man Who Played With Hurricanes	2023-06-23
Cautionary Tales Presents: Lost Hills - The Dark Prince	2023-06-15
Sonic Poison? The Genesis of Havana Syndrome	2023-06-09
Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions	2023-05-26
The Man Who Bet His House on a Pop Song - A Eurovision Tale	2023-05-12
The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day	2023-04-28
The True Scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound	2023-04-14

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