Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford Podcast Transcripts
Pushkin Industries · 269 episodes with transcripts
We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true.
Spoken has transcripts of 269 Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 9, 2026.
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When Aliens Landed in Wiltshire | Halloween Season
October 9, 2026
Tim Harford (0:14)
As darkness falls late on a summer evening in the English countryside, twelve groups of people make their way towards a field of wheat, carrying planks of wood, ropes and various other implements. The year is 1992 We're in Buckinghamshire, England. The night is cloudy. A shame. What they're about to do in this…
Over the previous few years, crop circles had caused a media sensation in England. They'd appear suddenly. Overnight, in some farmer's field, elaborate formations made from flattened crops. Newspapers would print aerial photos. So many curious people would turn up to look that farmers began to charge for admission…
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