Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are

Podcast Contacts

Name Email Title Social Profiles Location Gender
Pushkin
Timothy Douglas Harford Host Oxford, England, United Kingdom Male
Jla Booking Agent
Sally Holloway Booking Agent Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Knight Ayton Booking Agent

Podcast Details

Podcast
Latest Episode Date
2025-12-11 21:01:00
Episodes
189
Since
Sep 2022
Avg. Episode length
43 mins
Estimated listeners
305K / month
Has Sponsor
Apple Rating
4.7
Apple Review
4531 (United States)
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Has Guest
Yes
Podcast Network
Pushkin
Location
NY, United States
Audience Type
Investors, Educators, Content Creators, Policy Makers, Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs, History Buffs
Beats
History, Failure, Pushkin

Guest List

Guest Name Profession Occupation Episode Episode Date
Lise Meitner Physicist Nuclear physicist The Nazis, the Bomb, and the Woman that Science Forgot Jun 05, 2025
Nate Silver Statistician Poker connoisseurs Give Politicians a Raise, Smuggle Smartphones into School, and go Full Donk! Cautionary Questions with Risky Business May 29, 2025
Maria Konnikova Author Poker connoisseurs Give Politicians a Raise, Smuggle Smartphones into School, and go Full Donk! Cautionary Questions with Risky Business May 29, 2025
John Stevens Engineer Chief engineer Roosevelt and the Renegade (Panama Disaster 2) May 22, 2025
Ferdinand De Lesseps The Great Frenchman's Folly (Panama Disaster 1) May 15, 2025
Steven Levitt Economist Academic “I love being the person who doesn’t know anything” - Why Steven Levitt has swapped academia for podcasting Apr 10, 2025
Captain Tom Moore Veteran WWII veteran The Old Man and the Wrecking Crew Apr 03, 2025