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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tal

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Take the Cautionary Tales listener survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HCHGGZ3 Charles Darwi

Take the Cautionary Tales listener survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HCHGGZ3 In 1827, Edin

Tim Harford joined Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova on their podcast Risky Business to discuss two of

India, 1930. Sarojini Naidu is marching towards a British-controlled saltwork; behind her is a long

Early morning, April 1789. Captain Bligh is abruptly dragged from his cabin. Wrists bound, bayonet p

In the beautiful mountain town of Idyllwild, a wealthy widow named Dia Abrams suddenly vanishes from

Paul Starrett has just won a major building contract. If everything goes according to plan, this wil

Leo Durocher would stop at nothing to win. The baseball player-turned-manager was a skilled tacticia

Tim Harford's life has been building up to this moment. In this Cautionary Conversation, he discusse

Young doctor Jesse Lazear has deadly Yellow Fever. He thrashes around and convulses in his sick bed,

Cautionary Conversation: Steve Jobs hated his phone so much that he smashed it against a wall. He al

Legends are made at the Olympics and this summer shows across the Pushkin network are bringing their

The disappearance and death of Mitrice Richardson remains Malibu, CA’s most baffling unsolved case.

Panic has erupted in the cockpit of Air France Flight 447. The pilots are convinced they’ve lost con

Until the 1960s, it was deemed too "dangerous" for women athletes to run distances longer than 200m

Adi and Rudi Dassler made sports shoes together - until a feud erupted between them. They set up com

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in 1819, Owen Chase is standing on a slowly sinking ship. It's j

Tim Harford is joined by Jacob Goldstein to answer your questions. Does winning the lottery make you

Neatly dressed in his suit, Hans Ferdinand Mayer was every inch the unassuming corporate executive.