Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history... more
Today’s episode is about a revolution that took centuries to happen if it ever really happened at all: The Scientific... more
Today’s revolutionary thinker is Martin Luther, the man who upended the religious, political and intellectual life of Europe, maybe without... more
Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas is about a medieval movement that used the ancient past to rethink... more
Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas is about a medieval document that is sometimes thought to contain a... more
Today’s episode in our history of revolutionary ideas explores the world-altering impact of Islam from the seventh century onwards. David talks... more
Today’s episode in our series on revolutionary ideas is a conversation covering two millennia with the historian Tom Holland exploring... more
To begin our history of revolutionary ideas in earnest, David talks to the philosopher Agnes Callard about Socrates, the philosopher... more
To kick off our new series on revolutionary ideas past, present and future David talks to two regular PPF contributors... more
The final episode in our great political films series explores Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023), his haunting take... more
The penultimate episode in our great political films series explores Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (2012), her controversial take on... more