Past Present Future
A podcast by David Runciman
237 Episodes
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Fixing Democracy: Parliamentary Reform
Published: 17/09/2025 -
Fixing Democracy: Electoral Reform
Published: 14/09/2025 -
Indignity w/Lea Ypi
Published: 10/09/2025 -
Dignity and Indignity w/Lea Ypi
Published: 07/09/2025 -
PPF+: More of What You’ve Been Missing!
Published: 03/09/2025 -
Politics on Trial: Hitler vs Weimar
Published: 31/08/2025 -
Politics on Trial: Easter Rising 1916 w/Fintan O’Toole
Published: 28/08/2025 -
PPF+: A Taste of What You've Been Missing!
Published: 24/08/2025 -
Politics on Trial 100th Anniversary Special: Franz Kafka’s The Trial
Published: 21/08/2025 -
Politics on Trial: Dreyfus vs the Conspiracy Theory
Published: 17/08/2025 -
Politics on Trial: Oscar Wilde vs the Philistines
Published: 14/08/2025 -
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Whatever Happened to Unemployment?
Published: 10/08/2025 -
Politics on Trial: Charles Parnell vs the English
Published: 07/08/2025 -
Politics on Trial: The Haymarket Eight vs the Police
Published: 03/08/2025 -
Politics on Trial: John Brown vs Slavery
Published: 31/07/2025 -
Politics on Trial: Aaron Burr vs the Constitution
Published: 27/07/2025 -
Politics on Trial: Louis XVI vs the People
Published: 24/07/2025 -
Politics on Trial: Warren Hastings vs the British Empire
Published: 20/07/2025 -
The History of Bad Ideas: Identity
Published: 17/07/2025 -
The History of Bad Ideas: Behaviourism
Published: 13/07/2025
Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter. Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.