Tim Harford

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476 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Jul

Tim Harford’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I mean, it's the end of the airship program in the UK. voice-verified

So the R100, which, by the way, flew perfectly well, flew to Canada and back. voice-verified

No problems. voice-verified

No, I think that... voice-verified

That's the thing. voice-verified

Nobody really... When you've seen what happens to the R101, why would you get on the R100? voice-verified

And yes, the R100 was better designed. voice-verified

It was more stripped down. voice-verified

It was more elegant. voice-verified

It was just a much more robust plane. voice-verified

But fundamentally, it's still a bunch of cow guts inflated with hydrogen. voice-verified

And it's highly flammable. voice-verified

And so it is dangerous. voice-verified

And we saw with the Zeppelin, which was a few years later... voice-verified

There is a fundamental issue. voice-verified

If you're going to take these things up full of hydrogen, there's only so safe they can ever be. voice-verified

So you kind of have to build them. voice-verified

You have to inflate them with helium, which is more expensive and harder to get and less effective. voice-verified

And so that creates all sorts of limits. voice-verified

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