Films of Ideas: Rope w/Nicci Gerrard & Sean French
Today it’s the first in our series of live episodes recorded at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to the crime writers Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (aka Nicci French) about Alfred Hitch...
17 Joulu 202559min
Politics on Trial: Nelson Mandela vs Apartheid
Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade tha...
14 Joulu 20251h 5min
Politics on Trial: Eichmann in Jerusalem
Today’s episode is about a momentous trial and the incendiary book that followed: the trial was of Adolf Eichmann, convicted by an Israeli court in 1961 of orchestrating the Holocaust, and the book wa...
10 Joulu 20251h 5min
Politics on Trial: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Today we return to our series about epoch-making trials with the case of the book they tried and failed to ban. In 1960 Penguin Books was prosecuted at the Old Bailey under the new Obscene Publication...
7 Joulu 202558min
Ian McEwan on the Present as Future Past
David talks to novelist Ian McEwan, who was our first ever guest on PPF, about how the future will view our present once the disasters we are brewing come to pass. How might humanity scrape through th...
3 Joulu 20251h
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Thatcher@100 – Her Legacy
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Robert Saunders about the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. What is the meaning of Thatcherism in the twenty-first century...
30 Marras 20251h 3min
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Thatcher@100 – Her Life
Today’s episode in our occasional series about momentous political anniversaries with historian Robert Saunders looks at the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher one hundred years on from her birth. W...
26 Marras 20251h 9min
The Rise and Fall of Homo Sapiens
Today’s episode explores some very big picture history: David talks to palaeontologist and science writer Henry Gee about the story of the human species from origin to peak to inevitable decline. When...
23 Marras 202554min
