Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history... more
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The second David Fincher film in our series (after Fight Club) is The Social Network (2010), the Aaron Sorkin-scripted take... more
Our great political films series reaches the twenty-first century with Paul Thomas Anderson’s unforgettable There Will Be Blood (2007), starring... more
David talks to writer and journalist Helen Lewis about David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), the film that launched a thousand... more
Our political films season has reached the late 1980s with Do The Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee’s searing take on... more
Today’s great political film is Akira Kurosawa’s epic of war and deception Kagemusha (1980). Set in late sixteenth-century Japan it... more
Today’s great political film is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), voted the greatest film... more
Today’s episode is a conversation between David and the former politician Chris Smith (long-time MP and Secretary of State for... more
We resume our series on the great political films with Costa-Gavras’s Z (1969), the quintessential late 60s movie about assassination, conspiracy, street... more
To finish this series of bad ideas, David tries to persuade Gary Gerstle of the futility of televised leadership debates. From... more
For our penultimate bad idea in this series, David talks to Robert Saunders about what’s gone wrong with British politics... more
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