DANGER: Rocks Ahead! (Classic)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Torrey Canyon was one of the biggest and best ships in the world - but its captain and crew still needlessly steered it towards a deadly reef known as the Seven Stones. This course seemed like madness, but the type of thinking that resulted in this risky maneuver is something we're all prone to...
We have a treasure chest of Cautionary Tales to bring you in 2024, but first we need to take a short rest. This week we're taking you all the way back to the start, with a classic episode from our Cautionary Tales vault.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:10.0 | In 2019, the year that cautionary tales developed from an unsettling thought to a fully |
| 0:16.8 | fledged new show, I was on the lookout for disasters. |
| 0:21.8 | And there are few catastrophes more compelling than the wreck of Tori Canyon. |
| 0:26.8 | It's partly the shattering environmental impact of the error. |
| 0:30.9 | It's partly the tragic figure of Captain Pastrengo Rougeati. But above all, what |
| 0:38.0 | compels me about this story is all the things Torrey Canyon represents, |
| 0:43.4 | as it plows towards an obvious disaster, |
| 0:46.2 | and yet, for some mystifying reason, |
| 0:48.9 | doesn't seem to be able to change course. |
| 0:52.2 | We've all set a course for disaster at some stage in our lives |
| 0:55.4 | and we've all struggled to admit it until it's too late. We have a treasure chest |
| 1:01.9 | full of cautionary tales to bring you in 2024, but we also need to take a short rest. |
| 1:09.0 | So the next two episodes will be classics from our Cautionery Tales vault. |
| 1:14.0 | I hope you enjoy them, starting with the very first episode of Cautionery Tales that was ever released. |
| 1:21.0 | Danger. Rocks ahead. |
| 1:24.0 | We're |
| 1:25.0 | ... |
| 1:26.0 | ... |
| 1:27.0 | ... |
| 1:28.0 | ... ... |
| 1:35.0 | We pray the Lord, the Lord, not that Rex should happen, |
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