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Season 16 Episode 252
An extra episode to accompany our Films of Ideas series: David explores The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn, the writer and co-star of My Dinner with Andre. How did a play first performed in 1996…
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Films of Ideas: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind w/Beeban Kidron
Season 16 Episode 251
Today it’s the last in our series of live episodes recorded at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to film director and campaigner Beeban Kidron about Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of …
Published on 1 week ago
Films of Ideas: Wittgenstein w/Nikhil Krishnan
Season 16 Episode 250
The fourth episode in our season of live recordings from the Regent Street Cinema is about another film that explores the relationship between biography and philosophy: Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein (1…
Published on 1 week, 3 days ago
Films of Ideas: Rosa Luxemburg w/Lea Ypi
Season 16 Episode 249
Today’s episode in our season of live recordings from the Regent Street Cinema looks at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s Rosa Luxemburg (1986), which explores the deeply unstabl…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Films of Ideas: My Dinner with Andre w/Lee Hall
Season 16 Episode 248
The second episode in our live series from the Regent Street Cinema explores Louis Malle’s My Dinner with Andre (1981), in which two men discuss the meaning of theatre, capitalism, love, science, fai…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Films of Ideas: Rope w/Nicci Gerrard & Sean French
Season 16 Episode 247
Today it’s the first in our series of live episodes recorded at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to the crime writers Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (aka Nicci French) about Alfred Hitc…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Politics on Trial: Nelson Mandela vs Apartheid
Season 13 Episode 246
Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade th…
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago
Politics on Trial: Eichmann in Jerusalem
Season 13 Episode 245
Today’s episode is about a momentous trial and the incendiary book that followed: the trial was of Adolf Eichmann, convicted by an Israeli court in 1961 of orchestrating the Holocaust, and the book w…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Politics on Trial: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Season 13 Episode 244
Today we return to our series about epoch-making trials with the case of the book they tried and failed to ban. In 1960 Penguin Books was prosecuted at the Old Bailey under the new Obscene Publicatio…
Published on 1 month ago
Ian McEwan on the Present as Future Past
Episode 243
David talks to novelist Ian McEwan, who was our first ever guest on PPF, about how the future will view our present once the disasters we are brewing come to pass. How might humanity scrape through t…
Published on 1 month ago