Tim Harford
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The DeLorean Saga: Fraud, Drugs and Marty McFly's Car - with Business History
This is a special crossover episode with Business History. John DeLorean was a visionary who wanted to create a futuristic new sports car - a stainless steel marvel with distinctive gull-wing doors.
Proceed with Caution - Pascal's Guide to Podcasts
How does a story on Cautionary Tales come to life? In this episode of our subscriber-exclusive series, Proceed with Caution, sound designer Pascal Wyse shows Tim how the audio magic happens.
Britain's Worst Airship Disaster
Listen to Britain's Worst Airship Disaster from After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal. "It's like the Titanic, except you've never heard of it.
Cautionary Tales – Attack of the Night People
If you tuned in to late-night WOR radio in 1950s New York, you’d enter the secret world of Jean Shepherd.
Cautionary Tales Live – We Are Not Machines, with Sarah O’Connor
When the Luddites smashed factory frames in a bid to defend their craft and livelihoods, the machines came out on top.
The Queen's Astrologer: The Price of Prophecy (Part 1)
In Tudor England, the line between mathematics and the mystic arts is vanishingly thin.