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A Deadly Day at the Races: What Radical Protest Can and Cannot Do
Season 6 Episode 37
After years of campaigning for votes for women, the Suffragettes emerge at the turn of the 20th Century. Their motto, 'Deeds Not Words', heralds the …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
True Lies and Genuine Fakes
Season 6 Episode 36
In 1998, an art gallery gets a mysterious phone call. The caller claims they have been fooled by a master forger and that many of their prized painti…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Stalling for Survival - A Lonely Fight Against a Deadly Medicine
Season 6 Episode 35
In 1960, FDA scientist Frances Oldham Kelsey is tasked with approving an application for a mild sedative to be sold in America. The drug is popular a…
6 months ago
Announcing: The Cautionary Club
Season 6
Do you want more Cautionary Tales episodes in your life? Do you want access to behind the scenes stories and bonus conversations with Tim? Do you wan…
6 months ago
Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point
Season 6 Episode 34
In 1923, legendary navigator Captain Dolly Hunter led a squadron of warships into America’s worst peacetime naval catastrophe. The mission was suppos…
6 months, 1 week ago
Paradise Poisoned: How Utopias Fall Apart
Season 6 Episode 33
Dore Strauch and Friedrich Ritter make an unconventional couple, united by their contempt for shoes, root vegetables and, above all, society. In 1929…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
"Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
Season 6 Episode 32
William McGonagall's poems are something else. The jarring meter, the banal imagery, the awkward rhymes: they made him a laughing stock in 19th Centu…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Office Hell: The Demise of the Playful Workspace (Classic)
Season 6 Episode 31
In the early 90s, cutting-edge advertising agency Chiat/Day announced a radical plan, aimed at giving the company a jolt of creative renewal. They wo…
7 months ago
Number Fever: How Pepsi Nearly Went Pop (Classic)
Season 6 Episode 30
Pepsi twice ended up in court after promotions went disastrously wrong. Other big companies have fallen into the same trap - promising customers rewa…
7 months, 1 week ago
Fire at The Beverly Hills Supper Club (Update)
Season 6 Episode 29
It's been five years since Cautionary Tales ran a mini-series about the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring the lessons we were learning in real time as the…
7 months, 1 week ago