Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history... more
Our third Parisian revolution is another explosive night in the theatre, this time in the world of dance. David talks... more
Today’s Parisian revolution is a theatrical performance that produced a riot. David talks to theatre director Dominic Dromgoole about Alfred... more
Today’s episode is the first of three this week with the theatre director and writer Dominic Dromgoole, exploring revolutionary events... more
Today the first of four episodes about Parisian revolutions. We start with the definitive nineteenth-century revolutionary and his definitive revolution:... more
Today’s revolutionary idea is one with a long history, not all of it revolutionary: David talks to the historian Fara... more
We take a brief break from revolutionary ideas for a special live episode of PPF recorded in front of an... more
David talks to geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford about the book that fundamentally altered our understanding of just about... more
Today’s revolutionary ideas come from China: David talks to historian Julia Lovell about the Taiping Revolution, another massive mid-19th-century upheaval... more
In our second of three episodes on the revolutions that swept through Europe in 1848 David and Chris Clark explore... more
In the first of three episodes about the revolutions that swept through Europe in 1848 David is joined by historian... more