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Monkey for Mayor from This Day in Esoteric Political History
Monkey for Mayor from This Day in Esoteric Political History
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2022
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Podcast episode
Description
What happens when a monkey gets elected mayor? Well, not really a monkey, but a monkey mascot for a town’s football games. Tim Harford joins This Day in Esoteric Political History to discuss a weird moment from UK history in 2002, when the northeastern English town of Hartlepool was gearing up for a mayoral election and ended up voting in…the local football club’s monkey mascot to run their government. They discuss how H’Angus the Monkey got elected, and how the man inside the suit, Stuart Drummond, went on to be a very effective administrator.
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Released:
May 13, 2022
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Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Cautionary Tales Presents: TED Talk Daily: In this special episode of Cautionary Tales, we feature Tim Harford's TED Talk Daily from 2018. by Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford