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WW2: How Britain Ignored the Mother of All Secrets

5/10/2024 • 43 min

Cautionary Tales will be LIVE on stage in London this May. Tickets are on sale now: https://www.tegeurope.com/events/cautionary-tales/ Neatly dressed in his suit, Hans Ferdinand Mayer was every inch the unassuming corporate executive. So, when he asked to borrow a typewriter from his hotel in Oslo, nobody could have guessed he would use it for one of the most e… Play episode

The Fraudster's Guide to Magic Money
Blood and Gold (with Dan Snow)
The Rise and Fall of a Megalomaniac
Inside the Bizarre World of Dictators
Pushkin Hosts Celebrate World Happiness Day
Do Nothing, Then Do Less
Buried Evil: V2 Rocket (Part 3)
Into the Black Lair: V2 Rocket (Part 2)
Supersonic Nazi Vengeance: V2 Rocket (Part 1)
Tenerife: The Most Deadly Air Disaster
Martin Luther King, the Jewelry Genius, and the Art of Public Speaking (Cl…
DANGER: Rocks Ahead! (Classic)
When Stalin Killed the Weekend (with The Happiness Lab)
How the Radium Girls Fought Back
Glowing Peril: The Magical Glitter That Poisoned a City
George Washington's Beard of Beetles (with The Dollop)
Laser Versus Parchment: Doomsday for the Disc
Cautionary Tales Presents The Dream
Killers of the Flower Moon: Osage Chief Jim Gray In Conversation
Oil and Blood: The Osage Murders
DOUBLE BILL: A Monkey For Mayor / A Screw Loose At 17,000 Feet
"7000 horses are being flown across space..." - Cautionary Questions #2
Cautionary Tales Presents: Getting out of Dodge from Revisionist History
A Chorus of Contempt at The Sydney Opera House
The City That Sold Itself To Wall Street
General Ludd's Rage Against the Machines
Andy Warhol's Factory of Truth
Poles Apart: How A Journalist Divided A City
The Father of Space Travel
A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)
When Parakeets Plundered New York
The Coup, the Poet and the Secret to Winning Wimbledon
The Man Who Played With Hurricanes
Cautionary Tales Presents: Lost Hills - The Dark Prince
Sonic Poison? The Genesis of Havana Syndrome
Airships, AI and Alan Cumming: Tim Answers Your Questions
The Man Who Bet His House on a Pop Song - A Eurovision Tale
The Dark Money Behind Mother's Day
The True Scandal of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
What if Terrorists Could Weaponize Covid?
The Vigilante and the Air Traffic Controller
America's Mata Hari? The Double Life of Esther Reed
Office Hell: the Demise of the Playful Workspace
La La Land: Galileo’s Warning (Classic)
The Scientist and the Swindler
The Hero Who Rode His Segway Off a Cliff
The Mummy's Curse (Classic)
The Final Illusion of the Great Lafayette
LIVE: The Myth of the Million Dollar Tulip Bulb

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