Past Present Future

A podcast by David Runciman

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163 Episodes

  1. American Elections: 1936

    Published: 17/03/2024
  2. American Elections: 1912

    Published: 14/03/2024
  3. American Elections: 1896

    Published: 10/03/2024
  4. American Elections: 1860

    Published: 07/03/2024
  5. American Elections: 1828

    Published: 03/03/2024
  6. American Elections: 1800

    Published: 29/02/2024
  7. Q & A: Shakespeare, Gulliver and Trump

    Published: 25/02/2024
  8. The Great Political Fictions: Fathers and Sons

    Published: 22/02/2024
  9. The Great Political Fictions: Mary Stuart

    Published: 15/02/2024
  10. The Great Political Fictions: Gulliver’s Travels

    Published: 08/02/2024
  11. The Great Political Fictions: Coriolanus

    Published: 01/02/2024
  12. The End of Enlightenment

    Published: 25/01/2024
  13. Rory Stewart: What Does it Mean to be a 21st-Century Tory?

    Published: 18/01/2024
  14. The End of the UK?

    Published: 11/01/2024
  15. History of Ideas 12: Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Published: 05/01/2024
  16. History of Ideas 11: Umberto Eco

    Published: 04/01/2024
  17. History of Ideas 10: David Foster Wallace

    Published: 03/01/2024
  18. History of Ideas 9: Joan Didion

    Published: 02/01/2024
  19. History of Ideas 8: Susan Sontag

    Published: 01/01/2024
  20. History of Ideas 7: James Baldwin

    Published: 31/12/2023

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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. Brought to you in partnership with the London Review of Books. New episodes every Thursday and Sunday.

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