Against the Rules Presents: Cautionary Tales
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
A new show from Pushkin Industries: Cautionary Tales. We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but these Cautionary Tales are for the education of the grown ups – and they are all true. Tim Harford (Financial Times, BBC, author of “Messy” and “The Undercover Economist”) brings you stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists and hilarious fiascos. They'll delight you, scare you, but also make you wiser. Featuring original music and an award-winning cast including Alan Cumming and Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife), Toby Stephens (Die Another Day), Russell Tovey (Quantico) – and Malcolm Gladwell.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:10.8 | This thing's still on. |
| 0:12.9 | Michael Lewis here. |
| 0:14.3 | Guess what? |
| 0:15.6 | I'm working on a second season of against the rules. |
| 0:17.8 | I had so much fun doing season one that I decided to keep going. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm back in the field with my producers, talking to people and poking around. |
| 0:26.5 | The next season is going to be about coaches, and why the role of coach has expanded so |
| 0:31.0 | far beyond sports in American life. |
| 0:34.5 | If everybody hates the ref, everyone seems to love the coach these days. |
| 0:39.6 | In season two, I'm going to explore why. |
| 0:43.9 | It's out next spring. |
| 0:46.2 | Meanwhile, I have something else for you to listen to. |
| 0:49.5 | It's a new show from Pushkin Industries. |
| 0:52.2 | By a British writer, I really admire. |
| 0:54.9 | His name is Tim Hartford. |
| 0:57.2 | He's a familiar voice on the BBC, where his most recent series was about the modern inventions |
| 1:02.5 | we might not have noticed, but would shape our lives. |
| 1:07.2 | This new show from Tim is called Cautionary Tales, and it's full of spectacular stories |
| 1:13.8 | about other people's mistakes. |
| 1:16.7 | My favorite kind of mistakes. |
| 1:19.4 | Humanist team of actors re-enact airship disasters and great frauds and safety systems |
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