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Killers of the Flower Moon: Osage Chief Jim Gray In Conversation
Season 4 Episode 30
Henry Roan has been shot through the back of his head. The local authorities have found his body slumped over the steering wheel of his car. There's …
2 years, 4 months ago
Oil and Blood: The Osage Murders
Season 4 Episode 29
Minnie Smith grew sick quite suddenly. She had been young, fit and healthy - and the doctors were baffled when she died. "A peculiar wasting illness,…
2 years, 4 months ago
DOUBLE BILL: A Monkey For Mayor / A Screw Loose At 17,000 Feet
Season 4 Episode 28
This week, we've twice the storytelling fun for you: two Cautionary Tales shorts, previously only available to Pushkin+ subscribers.
A Monkey for May…
2 years, 4 months ago
"7000 horses are being flown across space..." - Cautionary Questions #2
Season 4 Episode 27
Why are board games so popular in Germany? What’s Tim Harford’s top tip for productivity? And where do all those sound effects come from?
Tim is join…
2 years, 5 months ago
Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History
Season 4
The longest running television series of the 20th century was Gunsmoke, a western set in the notorious Dodge City, Kansas. Malcolm sweeps away mounta…
2 years, 5 months ago
A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House
Season 4 Episode 26
1957. Jørn Utzon receives a phone call: he's just won an international competition to design a brand new opera house for the Australian city of Sydne…
2 years, 5 months ago
The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street
Season 4 Episode 25
Cautionary Book Club: When Morgan Stanley offered to lease Chicago's parking meters for the princely sum of $1 billion, the City Council were convinc…
2 years, 6 months ago
General Ludd's Rage Against the Machines
Season 4 Episode 24
1812. A band of "Luddites" is laying siege to a textile mill in the North of England, under cover of night. They plan to destroy the machines that ar…
2 years, 6 months ago
Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth
Season 4 Episode 23
Cautionary Conversation: Andy Warhol’s assistant, Gerard Malanga, is facing a long prison sentence in Italy. He’s forged several Che Guevara portrait…
2 years, 6 months ago
Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City
Season 4 Episode 22
Heroic explorer Frederick Cook has just returned from the very roof of the world, the first man to reach the North Pole. Or so he says. Journalist Ph…
2 years, 7 months ago