Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)
Today David talks to political and economic theorist Leah Downey about the role that central banks in general – and the Federal Reserve in particular – have played in the story of globalisation. How h...
8 Maj 202555min
Ideas of Globalisation: Hoover and Smoot-Hawley (and Trump!)
David talks to historian Gary Gerstle about the last time the Republican party got caught up in a tariffs disaster and how it changed American politics. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 brought tariffs ba...
4 Maj 20251h 1min
Ideas of Globalisation: Chamberlain and the Tariff Wars (and Trump!)
Today we explore the explosive fight over tariffs that took place in Britain in the first decade of the twentieth century. David talks to historian Robert Saunders about how Joseph Chamberlain made ta...
1 Maj 202557min
Ideas of Globalisation: Trade, Race and Empire (and Trump!)
We start a new mini-series on the history of ideas of globalisation by exploring how arguments from 150 years ago foreshadow what’s happening with Trump today. David talks to economic historian Marc P...
27 Apr 202559min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Lenin and Trotsky
To conclude this part of our revolutionary ideas series, we explore the overlapping lives and thinking of two emblematic twentieth-century revolutionaries: Lenin and Trotsky. David talks to historian ...
24 Apr 202555min
PPF Live Special: Churchill – The Politician With Nine Lives w/Robert Saunders
Today’s episode is the second of our two recent live recordings of PPF, this one in front of an audience at the Bath Curious Minds Festival. David talks to historian Robert Saunders about the life of ...
20 Apr 20251h 2min
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Rite of Spring w/Dominic Dromgoole
Our third Parisian revolution is another explosive night in the theatre, this time in the world of dance. David talks to Dominic Dromgoole about Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which provoked absolut...
17 Apr 202545min
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
