237 Episodes

  1. Fixing Democracy: Parliamentary Reform

    Published: 17/09/2025
  2. Fixing Democracy: Electoral Reform

    Published: 14/09/2025
  3. Indignity w/Lea Ypi

    Published: 10/09/2025
  4. Dignity and Indignity w/Lea Ypi

    Published: 07/09/2025
  5. PPF+: More of What You’ve Been Missing!

    Published: 03/09/2025
  6. Politics on Trial: Hitler vs Weimar

    Published: 31/08/2025
  7. Politics on Trial: Easter Rising 1916 w/Fintan O’Toole

    Published: 28/08/2025
  8. PPF+: A Taste of What You've Been Missing!

    Published: 24/08/2025
  9. Politics on Trial 100th Anniversary Special: Franz Kafka’s The Trial

    Published: 21/08/2025
  10. Politics on Trial: Dreyfus vs the Conspiracy Theory

    Published: 17/08/2025
  11. Politics on Trial: Oscar Wilde vs the Philistines

    Published: 14/08/2025
  12. Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Whatever Happened to Unemployment?

    Published: 10/08/2025
  13. Politics on Trial: Charles Parnell vs the English

    Published: 07/08/2025
  14. Politics on Trial: The Haymarket Eight vs the Police

    Published: 03/08/2025
  15. Politics on Trial: John Brown vs Slavery

    Published: 31/07/2025
  16. Politics on Trial: Aaron Burr vs the Constitution

    Published: 27/07/2025
  17. Politics on Trial: Louis XVI vs the People

    Published: 24/07/2025
  18. Politics on Trial: Warren Hastings vs the British Empire

    Published: 20/07/2025
  19. The History of Bad Ideas: Identity

    Published: 17/07/2025
  20. The History of Bad Ideas: Behaviourism

    Published: 13/07/2025

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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.

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