Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks - with Katie Prescott
Mike Lynch was often lauded as Britain's answer to Bill Gates. Born into a working-class family, Lynch's incredible intellect and passion fo...
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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial...
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Listen to Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford, a History podcast by Pushkin Industries. Stream 213 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 213 episodesFinding Grace in a Burger Bun: An Incrediburgible Quest
Dick and Mac are content with their lives: they enjoy making burgers by day and stargazing by night. Ray Kroc is a workaholic chasing succes...
Run, Switzer, Run: The Women who Broke the Marathon Taboo (Classic)
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 classi...
The Lovestruck Explorer's Deadly Guessing Game
In 1860, police officer Robert O'Hara Burke plans an expedition to map the mysterious blank in the centre of Australia. Joining him is scien...
The Refugee Who Led a Software Revolution - with Ben Walter
Millionaire-making tech start-ups are most often associated with Silicon Valley. But this software revolution begins on a woman's kitchen ta...
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. In the unrest, an unlikely hero emerges, capturing...
The Sightseeing Flight and the Invisible Mountain
In November 1979, Flight 901 departs New Zealand on a sightseeing journey over Antarctica, heading directly towards a volcano. When the plan...
Presenting: Drug Story - On Xanax and Anxiety
This episode comes to you from the new podcast Drug Story, which investigates the origins, workings and cautionary tales behind today's medi...
"And it went click" - Dawn of the Working Dead
Robert Propst is more than an inventor: he is a visionary, an innovator dreaming up how to make the perfect office workstation. When he reve...
Explosives or Sugar? The Deadly Art of Distraction in Putin’s Russia - with Helena Merriman
In 1999, a series of bombs explode in Russian apartments, killing hundreds and spreading panic. No one knows who is behind it. But when one...
Flight of the Fantasist: The Race Around the World - Part 2
Donald Crowhurst is a brilliant inventor with a failing business. When he hears about the Golden Globe Race offering publicity and cash to t...
The Philosopher and the Handyman: The Race Around the World - Part 1
Who will be the first to sail non-stop around the world? In 1968, The Sunday Times announces a trophy and a cash prize for the winner, and t...
Presenting... American Criminal: The Great McDonald's Monopoly Heist
This episode comes to you from American Criminal, the true-crime history podcast that takes you inside the minds of some of America's most n...
Sphygmograph Be Damned: The Science of Love
Chris McKinlay is a good-looking, smart student at UCLA, but he can't seem to get a girlfriend. He's a computing expert, so why not use his...
The Angels, The Stones and The Dead
In the final days of the Sixties, The Rolling Stones join forces with other rock legends to plan a free concert at Altamont Speedway that wi...
Powered by Orgasm: The Rise and Fall of a Sex Cult - with Ellen Huet
Run by the charismatic Nicole Deadone, OneTaste billed itself as a sexual wellness startup celebrating the power of female orgasm. But behin...
The WOW Machine Stops (Pt 2)
Tony Hsieh, the billionaire CEO of Zappos, is passionate about community. He pours his time, energy and fortune into building a network of l...
Shoes, Booze and the Pursuit of Happiness (Pt 1)
They say the company Zappos is harder to get into than Harvard. Zappos may sell shoes, but its mission is to deliver WOW through a fun-focus...
Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer Liberated Women
The sewing machine was once thought to be an impossible invention. It was such a complicated contraption that it would take more than one in...
Fritterin' Away Genius (Classic)
Claude Shannon was brilliant. He was the Einstein of computer science... only he loved "fritterin' away" his time building machines to play...
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