The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Ubu Roi w/Dominic Dromgoole
Today’s Parisian revolution is a theatrical performance that produced a riot. David talks to theatre director Dominic Dromgoole about Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (1896), which only ran for a couple of nigh...
15 Apr 202545min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Salon Des Refusés w/Dominic Dromgoole
Today’s episode is the first of three this week with the theatre director and writer Dominic Dromgoole, exploring revolutionary events in the world of art and theatre, starting with the opening of the...
13 Apr 202541min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Marx and the Paris Commune
Today the first of four episodes about Parisian revolutions. We start with the definitive nineteenth-century revolutionary and his definitive revolution: David talks to historian Bruno Leipold about w...
10 Apr 202555min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Free Speech
Today’s revolutionary idea is one with a long history, not all of it revolutionary: David talks to the historian Fara Dabhoiwala about the idea of free speech. When did free speech first get articulat...
6 Apr 20251h 2min
PPF Live Film Special: Network w/Helen Lewis
We take a brief break from revolutionary ideas for a special live episode of PPF recorded in front of an audience at the Regent Street Cinema in London. David talks to writer and journalist Helen Lewi...
3 Apr 20251h 5min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Darwin w/Adam Rutherford
David talks to geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford about the book that fundamentally altered our understanding of just about everything: Darwin’s On The Origin of Species (1859). What made t...
30 Mar 202553min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Taiping Revolution
Today’s revolutionary ideas come from China: David talks to historian Julia Lovell about the Taiping Revolution, another massive mid-19th-century upheaval that nearly overturned the established order....
27 Mar 20251h 5min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: 1848: The Radical Revolution w/Chris Clark
In our second of three episodes on the revolutions that swept through Europe in 1848 David and Chris Clark explore the forces demanding radical change. What was ‘the Social Question’ and who was askin...
23 Mar 202552min
