Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

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Photographing Fairies (Classic)

Sherlock Holmes is known for approaching all mysteries with cool logic - and yet when his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle saw photographs taken by two young girls purporting to show real life fairies at play... he unwisely declared them genuine.How did Elsie and Frances fool so many people with their photography... and why did they keep the hoax going for decades?For a full list of sources go to timharford.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  "And it went click" - Dawn of the Working Dead

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  Explosives or Sugar? The Deadly Art of Distraction in Putin’s Russia - wit…

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  Flight of the Fantasist: The Race Around the World - Part 2

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  The Philosopher and the Handyman: The Race Around the World - Part 1

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  Presenting... American Criminal: The Great McDonald's Monopoly Heist

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  Sphygmograph Be Damned: The Science of Love

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  The Angels, The Stones and The Dead

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  Powered by Orgasm: The Rise and Fall of a Sex Cult - with Ellen Huet

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  The WOW Machine Stops (Pt 2)

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  Shoes, Booze and the Pursuit of Happiness (Pt 1)

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  Liar, Bigamist, Brute: How Isaac Singer Liberated Women

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  Fritterin' Away Genius (Classic)

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  "They fall behind and are slowly crushed" - Board Games and Economics with…

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  Flixborough: The Factory that was Wiped off the Map

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  The Disappearance of Grace Oakeshott