Coverbild der Sendung Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

Podcast von Pushkin Industries

Englisch

Kostenlos bei Podimo

Kostenlos hören bei Podimo

Starte jetzt und verbinde dich mit deinen Lieblingspodcaster*innen

  • Vertraut von über 1 Mio. deutschen Hörer*innen
  • Über 1.000 lokale Podcasts und Shows – nur bei Podimo
  • Keine Zahlung nötig

Mehr 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 Times, BBC, author of “The Data Detective”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. New episodes every Friday.

Alle Folgen

241 Folgen

Episode Beware Tech Tycoons with Piranha Tanks - with Katie Prescott Cover

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 for computers led him to become a billionaire tech entrepreneur. But behind the scenes, Lynch was a bully who couldn't bear criticism and was prone to creative accounting. When computer giant Hewlett Packard bought his company, Autonomy, it triggered one of the biggest fraud scandals in Silicon Valley history. Tim talks to Katie Prescott, Technology Business Editor at The Times and author of the book The Curious Case of Mike Lynch [https://www.porchlightbooks.com/products/curious-case-of-mike-lynch-katie-prescott-9781035074235], about the lessons we can take from a story no one could have predicted. For a list of sources see timharford.com [https://timharford.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

1. Mai 2026 - 40 min
Episode Run, Switzer, Run: The Women who Broke the Marathon Taboo (Classic) Cover

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 classic from the archives. If you would like to donate to Teenage Cancer Trust, Tim's fundraising page is at tinyurl.com/HarfordMarathon - any support is very much appreciated. Until the 1960s, it was deemed too "dangerous" for women athletes to run distances longer than 200m - and a marathon would kill them, or leave them unable to have children. Rubbish, of course. But when Kathrine Switzer signed up for the 1967 Boston Marathon, it wasn't the distance that bothered her - it was the enraged race director trying to assault her.   Thanks to pioneers like Kathrine, women have made huge strides in long distance running - and are now challenging the times of men in the very races they were banned from for so very long. See the show notes at timharford.com [https://timharford.com/] See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

17. Apr. 2026 - 36 min
Super gut, sehr abwechslungsreich Podimo kann man nur weiterempfehlen
Super gut, sehr abwechslungsreich Podimo kann man nur weiterempfehlen
Ich liebe Podcasts, Hörbücher u. -spiele, Dokus usw. Hier habe ich genügend Auswahl. Macht 👍 weiter so

Nur bei Podimo

Beliebte Hörbücher