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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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LIVE: We Are Not Machines - with Sarah O'Connor

July 02, 2026 11:01pm 41 min

When the Luddites smashed factory frames in a bid to defend their craft and livelihoods, the machines came out on top. Today, AI and automation threaten to wipe out skilled jobs and flood us with inferior products at a f...

Treacle Tears: The Boston Molasses Disaster

June 25, 2026 11:01pm 41 min

The children of North End, Boston, play in the shadow of an enormous steel tank of molasses. The thick, sticky sugar syrup is being used to make munitions for the First World War. When a worker notices dark molasses seep...

The Thief, the Jewels, and the Dublin Castle Conspiracy

June 18, 2026 11:01pm 42 min

In the early 1900s, Sir Arthur Vickers keeps the magnificent Irish Crown Jewels safe under lock and key at Dublin Castle. When the jewels disappear, the King rages, the police investigate, and even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

The Dunning Canoe-ger Effect

June 11, 2026 11:01pm 40 min

When John Darwin walks into a shop in London, it causes an instant stir. After all, John Darwin has been dead for five years. He claims to have amnesia, but everyone - from the police and the media to his insurance compa...

Presenting...This is History: A Dynasty to Die For

June 10, 2026 11:01pm 33 min

This episode comes to you from the new series of This is History, the podcast which tells the story of the Plantagenet Dynasty. Historian Dan Jones takes you through 300 years of calamities, wars and rebellions that mark...

How Civilizations Die - with Paul Cooper

June 04, 2026 11:01pm 42 min

As Governor of Britannia, Magnus Maximus has a huge army at his disposal, which is just what he needs to secure the Roman imperial throne. But perhaps the impressive general should have looked into the past before focusi...

Can You Make a Sherman Tank Float?

May 28, 2026 11:01pm 39 min

It’s D-Day and the Allies are about to invade Nazi-occupied France. For the landings to succeed, American soldiers on Omaha Beach will have to break through some formidable coastal defences - Hitler’s Atlantic Wall. Sher...

The Inventor who Almost Ended the World (Classic)

May 21, 2026 11:01pm 36 min

Thomas Midgley's inventions caused his own death, hastened the deaths of millions of people around the world, and very nearly extinguished all life on land.  Midgley and his employers didn't set out to poison the air wit...

From Drilled: The Carbon Gold Rush

May 18, 2026 11:01pm 28 min

We usually bring you failures of the past, but today we're sharing an episode from someone who uncovers failures as they happen. Amy Westervelt is an award-winning investigative climate journalist and the host of Drilled...

Angels, Gold and Lust: John Dee and the Philosopher's Stone (Part 2)

May 14, 2026 11:01pm 46 min

Part Two: When Tudor polymath John Dee meets a man who claims he can speak with angels, his path to understanding the universe suddenly becomes clear. At their instruction, the pair begin searching for the fabled philoso...

The Queen's Astrologer: The Price of Prophecy (Part 1)

May 07, 2026 11:01pm 43 min

In Tudor England, the line between mathematics and the mystic arts is vanishingly thin. Straddling both worlds is John Dee, a brilliant scholar and astrologer whose intellect grants him access to the highest circles of p...

Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks - with Katie Prescott

April 30, 2026 11:01pm 40 min

Mike Lynch was often lauded as Britain's answer to Bill Gates. Born into a working-class family, Lynch's incredible intellect and passion for computers led him to become a billionaire tech entrepreneur. But behind the sc...

Finding Grace in a Burger Bun: An Incrediburgible Quest

April 23, 2026 11:01pm 40 min

Dick and Mac are content with their lives: they enjoy making burgers by day and stargazing by night. Ray Kroc is a workaholic chasing success at any cost. When the brothers' relaxed approach to business collides with Kro...

Run, Switzer, Run: The Women who Broke the Marathon Taboo (Classic)

April 16, 2026 11:01pm 36 min

Tim is running the London Marathon on the 26th of April. To give him a week off to finish training, we're playing this running-themed classic from the archives. If you would like to donate to Teenage Cancer Trust, Tim's ...

The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game

April 09, 2026 11:01pm 39 min

In 1860, police officer Robert O'Hara Burke plans an expedition to map the mysterious blank in the centre of Australia. Joining him is scientist William Wills, and a ragtag team of hires. Burke falls out with virtually e...

The Refugee Who Led a Software Revolution - with Ben Walter

April 06, 2026 11:01pm 27 min

Millionaire-making tech start-ups are most often associated with Silicon Valley. But this software revolution begins on a woman’s kitchen table in rural Britain in the 1960s. Steve Shirley faced extraordinary odds. After...

The Mad Mystic and the Last Battle on English Soil - with Ian Breckon

April 02, 2026 11:01pm 43 min

As the Victorian era dawns, modernisation erodes the old ways of life and poverty rises. In the unrest, an unlikely hero emerges, capturing the imagination of the countryside's working class. He claims to be the new Mess...

The Sightseeing Flight and the Invisible Mountain

March 26, 2026 11:01pm 39 min

In November 1979, Flight 901 departs New Zealand on a sightseeing journey over Antarctica, heading directly towards a volcano. When the plane vanishes, investigators are left with a mystery: how could a seasoned pilot mi...

Presenting: Drug Story - On Xanax and Anxiety

March 19, 2026 11:01pm 46 min

This episode comes to you from the new podcast Drug Story, which investigates the origins, workings and cautionary tales behind today's medical interventions. In this episode, host Thomas Goetz investigates the rise of X...

"And it went click" - Dawn of the Working Dead

March 12, 2026 11:01pm 41 min

Robert Propst is more than an inventor: he is a visionary, an innovator dreaming up how to make the perfect office workstation. When he reveals his bold design for a creative, flexible 'cockpit of tomorrow', he comes int...

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