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Sounds,09 Dec 2024,35 mins,

Captain Coward and the Blame Game

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Contains strong language.

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Off the coast of an Italian island, an enormous cruise ship - seventeen floors high, three soccer pitches long - is tilting noticeably to one side. The local mayor is horrified: there are thousands of people on board the Costa Concordia, and it's only a matter of time before the ship capsizes altogether. How did a routine trip go so terribly wrong? And why is the captain nowhere to be found?

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