Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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"Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World

William McGonagall's poems are something else. The jarring meter, the banal imagery, the awkward rhymes: they made him a laughing stock in 19th Century Scotland and are still derided to this day. How does someone get that bad at poetry? Or have we been misunderstanding McGonagall all along? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Flixborough: The Factory that was Wiped off the Map

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  The Disappearance of Grace Oakeshott

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  Your Chance to Attend a Cautionary Tales Table Read

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  How to Experience the Joy of Giving Right Now: A Giving Tuesday Special fr…

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  Homo deceptus: Science's Dirty Little Secret

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  Presenting Heavyweight: Etta

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  Kyoto: The Battle that Defined Climate Politics - with Joe Robertson

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  Presenting: Twenty Thousand Hertz

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  The Treasure Hunt that Broke America (Part 2)

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  The Treasure Hunt that Broke America (Part 1)

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  The Truth About Hansel and Gretel (Classic)

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  On Fire from the Inside - Lethal Injection Up Close with Malcolm Gladwell

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  Derek Bentley Must Hang

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  The Canal, the Crash and the Ketamine - Pushkin's Reign of Error

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  Schrödinger's Spy: Businessman, Fraud, or Russian Agent? - with Sam Jones

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  Missing Fish and Fatal Feasts: Ritual and Ruin at the Sun King’s Table