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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
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About Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford is a podcast with 231 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Mary Bateman's Life and Crimes Enlightenment Hoax Culture Psychology of Scams Public Performance and Trust Trial and Punishment Modern Misinformation Parallels Authority and Instability Pepsi Philippines bottle-cap fiasco
Notable Guests on Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Recent Episodes
The DeLorean Saga: Fraud, Drugs and Marty McFly's Car - with Business History — August 21, 2026Proceed with Caution - Pascal's Guide to Podcasts — August 14, 2026The Weight of Fame: A Hollywood Tragedy — August 07, 2026Arsenic and Lace: The Trial of the Yorkshire Witch - with Maddy Pelling — July 31, 2026The Doors of Death: The Herald of Free Enterprise — July 24, 2026"What a Bloody Mess we're in" - Britain's [REDACTED] Accident — July 17, 2026Attack of the Night People — July 10, 2026LIVE: We Are Not Machines - with Sarah O'Connor — July 03, 2026Treacle Tears: The Boston Molasses Disaster — June 26, 2026The Thief, the Jewels, and the Dublin Castle Conspiracy — June 19, 2026The Dunning Canoe-ger Effect — June 12, 2026Presenting...This is History: A Dynasty to Die For — June 11, 2026How Civilizations Die - with Paul Cooper — June 05, 2026Can You Make a Sherman Tank Float? — May 29, 2026The Inventor who Almost Ended the World (Classic) — May 22, 2026From Drilled: The Carbon Gold Rush — May 19, 2026Angels, Gold and Lust: John Dee and the Philosopher's Stone (Part 2) — May 15, 2026The Queen's Astrologer: The Price of Prophecy (Part 1) — May 08, 2026Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks - with Katie Prescott — May 01, 2026Finding Grace in a Burger Bun: An Incrediburgible Quest — April 24, 2026Run, Switzer, Run: The Women who Broke the Marathon Taboo (Classic) — April 17, 2026The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game — April 10, 2026The Refugee Who Led a Software Revolution - with Ben Walter — April 07, 2026The Mad Mystic and the Last Battle on English Soil - with Ian Breckon — April 03, 2026The Sightseeing Flight and the Invisible Mountain — March 27, 2026Presenting: Drug Story - On Xanax and Anxiety — March 20, 2026"And it went click" - Dawn of the Working Dead — March 13, 2026Explosives or Sugar? The Deadly Art of Distraction in Putin’s Russia - with Helena Merriman — March 06, 2026Flight of the Fantasist: The Race Around the World - Part 2 — February 27, 2026The Philosopher and the Handyman: The Race Around the World - Part 1 — February 20, 2026Presenting... American Criminal: The Great McDonald's Monopoly Heist — February 17, 2026Sphygmograph Be Damned: The Science of Love — February 13, 2026The Angels, The Stones and The Dead — February 06, 2026Powered by Orgasm: The Rise and Fall of a Sex Cult - with Ellen Huet — January 30, 2026The WOW Machine Stops (Pt 2) — January 23, 2026Shoes, Booze and the Pursuit of Happiness (Pt 1) — January 16, 2026Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer Liberated Women — January 09, 2026Fritterin' Away Genius (Classic) — January 02, 2026Photographing Fairies (Classic) — December 26, 2025"They fall behind and are slowly crushed" - Board Games and Economics with Richard Garfield — December 19, 2025Flixborough: The Factory that was Wiped off the Map — December 12, 2025The Disappearance of Grace Oakeshott — December 05, 2025Your Chance to Attend a Cautionary Tales Table Read — December 04, 2025Homo deceptus: Science's Dirty Little Secret — November 28, 2025Kyoto: The Battle that Defined Climate Politics - with Joe Robertson — November 21, 2025Presenting: Twenty Thousand Hertz — November 18, 2025The Treasure Hunt that Broke America (Part 2) — November 14, 2025The Treasure Hunt that Broke America (Part 1) — November 07, 2025The Truth About Hansel and Gretel (Classic) — October 31, 2025On Fire from the Inside - Lethal Injection Up Close with Malcolm Gladwell — October 28, 2025
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