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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Pushkin Industries
HistorySociety & Culture

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.

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4.7 out of 5 stars from 8.1k ratings
  • very good show, but never listen to 'special' episode, or worst Q&A.

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    Fantastic stories, brilliantly crafted and presented. The only podcast I would unreservedly recommend to anyone.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Sweetie44444
    United Kingdom16 days ago
  • Almost amazing

    In general I found this podcast to be great, but there are a couple exceptions of episodes whose morals and storytelling I find bizarre and unhelpful. The episodes on Christmas and Mother‘s Day seem so unnecessarily negative towards holidays. Of course they‘re highly commercial, most Christian as well as American national holidays are. But I don’t see the point behind the ragging of the occasions simply because it’s commercial. I also did not understand the point behind the latest episode, on Eu... more

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    4
    FurAn'Bunnies
    United States25 days ago
  • Excellent show

    One of my favourite podcasts. Always interesting and regularly surprising. End of review. My own weird issue: The only thing I don’t like is scripted “conversations”. This does not apply to dramatizations, only when Tim and a guest are having what is supposed to be a natural conversation, but every question and answer is scripted. It’s a technique you hear on radio all the time when a reporter is talking with a show’s host. I understand why they do it, it’s efficient and ensures you hit all the ... more

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