Cautionary Tales – Treacle Tears: The Boston Molasses Disaster

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The children of North End, Boston, play in the shadow of an enormous steel tank of molasses. The thick, sticky sugar syrup is being used to make munitions for the First World War. When a worker notices dark molasses seeping from th

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Cautionary Tales – The Dunning Canoe-ger Effect

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When John Darwin walks into a shop in London, it causes an instant stir. After all, John Darwin has been dead for five years. He claims to have amnesia, but everyone - from the police and the media to his insurance company - suspects he is lying. No one can prove

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Cautionary Tales – Undiplomatic Immunity: The Enemies Who Defeated Polio

In the 1950s, polio spread at an unprecedented rate, killing or paralysing thousands of Americans. Two renowned scientists raced to develop a vaccine, taking radically different approaches and becoming bitter rivals in the process. Decades later, when a new virus threatens America, their fe

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Cautionary Tales – How Civilisations Die (with Paul Cooper)

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As Governor of Britannia, Magnus Maximus has a huge army at his disposal, which is just what he needs to secure the Roman imperial throne. But perhaps the impressive general should have looked into the past before focusing on his future. Ti

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Cautionary Tales – Can you make a Sherman tank float?

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It’s D-Day and the Allies are about to invade Nazi-occupied France. For the landings to succeed, American soldiers on Omaha Beach will have to break through some formidable coastal defences – Hitler’s Atlantic Wall. Sherman tanks will come in very h

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Cautionary Tales – The inventor who almost ended the world (classic)

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Thomas Midgley’s inventions caused his own death, hastened the deaths of millions of people around the world, and very nearly extinguished all life on land. 

Midgley and his employers didn’t set out to poison the air wi

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Cautionary Tales – Angels, Gold and Lust: John Dee and the Philosopher’s Stone (Part 2)

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Part Two: When Tudor polymath John Dee meets a man who claims he can speak with angels, his path to understanding the universe suddenly becomes clear. At their instruction, the pair begin searching for the fabled philosopher's stone. But

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Cautionary Tales – The Queen’s Astrologer: the Price of Prophecy

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In Tudor England, the line between mathematics and the mystic arts is vanishingly thin. Straddling both worlds is John Dee, a brilliant scholar and astrologer whose intellect grants him access to the highest circles of power. Dee navigates the politics of the c

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Cautionary Tales – The Drop of Paint that Sank a Submarine

Brand new submarine HMS Thetis is the pride of the British Navy. In 1939, she sets out for a test dive with 103 men on board. But a tiny flaw in her construction has gone unnoticed, and the crew of Thetis is soon racing against time to stop that flaw from spiralling into total destruction.

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