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Would You Trust a Gangster Nanny? - Cautionary Questions with Rachel Botsman
Season 6 Episode 10
Do we trust our fitness trackers too much? How do fraudsters gain our faith? Why do people trust podcasters? And would you trust a drug dealing nanny…
1 year ago
Lights, Camera, Tax Break
Season 6 Episode 9
When Ernest Borgnine gets his big break in Hollywood, he can hardly believe his luck. But soon he discovers his supposed star vehicle, Marty, is not …
1 year ago
The Nursery Rhyme That Ruined a Rock Band
Season 6 Episode 8
"Down Under" was huge. This jokey ode to legendary Australian wanderlust helped Men at Work win a Grammy and was a key part of the band's creative le…
1 year ago
The Widow Who Disrupted Champagne (with Ben Walter)
Season 6
Tim Harford is joined by Ben Walter, CEO of Chase for Business and the host of "The Unshakeables" podcast, to explore the story of the trailblazing W…
1 year ago
The Thrill and the Drop: A First Date Rollercoaster
Season 6 Episode 7
Leah Washington and her new boyfriend Joe Pugh are on their first day out together. They're at Alton Towers theme park, where they've chosen to ride …
1 year ago
Dr. Brinkley's Miracle Cure For Impotence (with Betwixt The Sheets)
Season 6 Episode 6
Cautionary Conversation: In the 1920s, a conman convinced America that goat testicles were the secret to male virility. Tim Harford and Dr Kate Liste…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Night of the Mugger
Season 6 Episode 5
Winston Trew has just been arrested for mugging. It's 1972 and the crime has recently made its way to Britain from the United States. Dangerous thugs…
1 year, 1 month ago
Missing on "Dead Mountain": A Cold War Cold Case
Season 6 Episode 4
In the bleak Russian winter of 1959, nine experienced hikers led by Igor Dyatlov set out on an expedition. None of them made it back alive.
When thei…
1 year, 1 month ago
Frozen in a Burning 747 (Tenerife Air Disaster 2)
Season 6 Episode 3
Two airplanes have just collided on the runway at Tenerife Airport. While no one on the Amsterdam-bound KLM plane survives the resulting fireball, 71…
1 year, 1 month ago
Cleared For Take-Off? (Tenerife Air Disaster 1)
Season 6 Episode 2
“Evacuate the airport, we’ve planted bombs,” a terrorist tells the telephone operator at the airport in Gran Canaria, in 1977. By the end of that day…
1 year, 1 month ago