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Steel and Kindness: Clash of the Skyscrapers
Season 5 Episode 20
Paul Starrett has just won a major building contract. If everything goes according to plan, this will be the tallest building in the world. But will …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Nice Guy, the Bully and the Kiss
Season 5 Episode 19
Leo Durocher would stop at nothing to win. The baseball player-turned-manager was a skilled tactician and famously tough. But he also cheated, intimi…
1 year, 5 months ago
Tim's Tolkien Obsession & Amazon Prime's The Rings of Power
Season 5 Episode 18
Tim Harford's life has been building up to this moment. In this Cautionary Conversation, he discusses the works of his favorite author J.R.R. Tolkien…
1 year, 6 months ago
The Human Guinea Pigs of Camp Lazear
Season 5 Episode 17
Young doctor Jesse Lazear has deadly Yellow Fever. He thrashes around and convulses in his sick bed, and his vomit is black. He is just 34 when he di…
1 year, 6 months ago
Embracing the Escape Fire (with Adam Grant)
Season 5 Episode 16
Cautionary Conversation: Steve Jobs hated his phone so much that he smashed it against a wall. He also referred to mobile carriers as "orifices". Yet…
1 year, 7 months ago
Cautionary Tales Presents Vultures from Lost Hills: Dark Canyon
Season 5
The disappearance and death of Mitrice Richardson remains Malibu, CA’s most baffling unsolved case. It’s been nearly 14 years since her remains were …
1 year, 7 months ago
Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447
Season 5 Episode 15
Panic has erupted in the cockpit of Air France Flight 447. The pilots are convinced they’ve lost control of the plane. It’s lurching violently. Then,…
1 year, 7 months ago
Run, Switzer, Run: The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo
Season 5 Episode 14
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 u…
1 year, 8 months ago
Adidas v Puma: A Battle of Boots and Brothers
Season 5 Episode 13
Adi and Rudi Dassler made sports shoes together - until a feud erupted between them. They set up competing companies, Adidas and Puma, and their bitt…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Revenge of the Whales
Season 5 Episode 12
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, in 1819, Owen Chase is standing on a slowly sinking ship. It's just been headbutted by an 85 foot whale. It's tak…
1 year, 9 months ago