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December 4, 2025 1 min

Ever wished you could be a fly on the wall while Cautionary Tales is being made? Now you can.

We just launched the Cautionary Club - our new Patreon community for Cautionary Tales fans who want to go deeper. If you sign up before the end of the year, you’ll be a Cautionary Club Founding Member, and you'll be invited to join Tim and the producers in a live table read of an unreleased episode.

This will be a rare chance for you to see how the stories we tell are developed in real time, hear the editorial suggestions, and ask your burning questions about Cautionary Tales. Founding Members will receive an invitation to the table read, which will be held early 2026.

But that’s just the beginning. You’ll also receive:
- two monthly bonus episodes
- a members-only newsletter with sneak peeks of what’s coming up
- behind-the-scenes chats and videos with Tim
- the chance to vote on future episodes
- early information on books and live events
- ad-free listening to the entire archive
and the opportunity to support the creation of the stories we tell on Cautionary Tales.

Join by December 31, 2025 to lock in exclusive perks and be recognised as one of the original members of the Cautionary Club. Sign up at patreon.com/cautionaryclub.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Pushkin. Hello Tim Harford here. I'm delighted that so many
of you have signed up for the Cautionary Club, our
new patroon community for listeners, where we share bonus episodes,
a member's only newsletter, and we take your suggestions for
future episodes. We're excited to announce a new opportunity for

(00:37):
the Club. If you join before the end of the year,
you'll be a Cautionary Club founding member, and as a
founding member, you'll be able to peek further behind the
curtain and receive an invitation to a live online table
read of a future Cautionary Tales episode. For each narrative episode,
the whole production team gets together to hear me read

(00:58):
the script for the first time and make editorial suggestions.
Now you'll have the chance to see that process in
real time and ask our team questions in a live
video call. We love hearing your feedback to episodes, so
this time we'll get to do it live. The table
read will take place in early twenty twenty six. If
you sign up before the end of the year, you'll

(01:19):
be a Cautionary Club founding member and will receive an
invitation to our table read, and if you've already signed
up for the Cautionary Club, not to worry. You are
automatically a founding member and you'll get your invitation shortly.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to shoot us
a note at info at Pushkin dot fm. But if
you'd like to sign up, head to Patreon dot com

(01:40):
Slash Cautionary Club. That's Patreon, p A t R e
o N dot com Slash Cautionary Club. We look forward
to seeing you there.
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