Cautionary Tales with Tim HarfordEpisodes Available now
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.
The Mad Mystic and the Last Battle on English Soil - with Ian Breckon
As the Victorian era dawns, modernisation erodes the old ways of life and poverty rises.
The Sightseeing Flight and the Invisible Mountain
In 1979, Flight 901 left New Zealand for an Antarctic tour, heading toward a volcano.
The Mummy’s Curse
Why did archeologists still risk inciting the wrath of King Tutankhamun?
"And it went click" - Dawn of the Working Dead
Robert Propst wasn't just an inventor; he envisioned the modern office workstation.
