Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford Episodes Available now
The Dunning Canoe-ger Effect
When John Darwin walks into a shop in London, it causes an instant stir...
How Civilizations Die - with Paul Cooper
Tim is joined by Paul Cooperto explore why the Han dynasty and the Roman Empire collapsed
Can You Make a Sherman Tank Float?
Everyone from Churchill down thought swimming tanks were a great idea... but were they?
Wrong Tools Cost Lives
UK鈥檚 鈥渨orld-beating鈥� Covid tracker failed after using outdated Microsoft Excel.
Angels, Gold and Lust: John Dee and the Philosopher's Stone (Part 2)
Part Two: Tudor polymath John Dee meets a man who claims he can speak with angels...
The Queen's Astrologer: The Price of Prophecy (Part 1)
In Tudor England, the line between mathematics and the mystic arts is vanishingly thin.
Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks - with Katie Prescott
Mike Lynch was often lauded as Britain's answer to Bill Gates...
Finding Grace in a Burger Bun: An Incrediburgible Quest
This is the story of two very different approaches to making hamburgers... and money.
The False Dawn of the Electric Car
Sir Clive Sinclair was a visionary who could do no wrong...
The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game
Robert O'Hara Burke plans an expedition to map the mysterious blank in Australia.
