Introducing: Cautionary Tales
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I will not stop until he is destroyed. No! Every soul is in peril. Shall we begin? The Lord of the Rings. The Rings of Power. New season, August 29th. Only on Prime Video. Pushkin. I opened the wrapping paper hurriedly, with nervous hands, excited to get at the gift inside. Little did I know, disaster was about to enter my previously happy childhood.

No, don't worry, it wasn't a disaster for me. It was a catalogue of disasters for everyone else. The gift was a book titled The World's Greatest Mistakes. Some of the stories were absurd. The bride who accidentally married the best man. Some of them were famous tragedies, like the Titanic swallowed by the ICC. All of them fascinated me. And I realised, learning from other people's mistakes...

is a lot less painful than learning from your own. My name is Tim Harford. Some people call me the undercover economist. I use scientific ideas to help people think more clearly about the world in my books, my BBC radio shows and my column for the Financial Times. Now I'm using the same rigorous research to understand what we can learn from other people's errors.

My new podcast, Cautionary Tales, takes you aboard a doomed airship... We're down, lads! ..sits you on a concert stage in front of a broken piano and puts you in a room with cult members counting down the final seconds before the end of the world. Helping me tell these cautionary tales are some marvellous actors, such as Alan Cumming and Archie Panjabi from The Good Wife, the Bond villain Toby Stevens and Russell Tovey from Quantico.

We also present the acting debut... Do it again. ..of a certain Mr Malcolm Gladwell. I am spellbound. This is the most beautiful creature I have ever listened to. MUSIC PLAYS

Together, we weave stories of human error, of tragic catastrophes and hilarious fiascos. Helmsman, can't do the weave. Vast oil tankers head for the rocks. She's not turning, Captain. Oscars go to the wrong movie. La La Land. And the world's most brilliant economist becomes the world's most famous financial basket case. Win or lose, this high-stakes gambling amuses me. Alongside the drama, each story has a moral.

Each story will make you wiser. Cautionary Tales from Pushkin Industries launches on November 15th. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your shows. Trust me, it would be a mistake not to.

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