Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNow & Then with Robert Saunders: Home Rule for Ireland! - The Kite
Season 14 Episode 253
Today’s episode in our occasional series with historian Robert Saunders on significant political anniversaries looks at the event that blew British p…
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Films of Ideas extra: The Designated Mourner
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 …
5 days, 2 hours ago
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…
1 week, 2 days 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 biogra…
1 week, 5 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 L…
2 weeks, 2 days 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 …
2 weeks, 5 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 an…
3 weeks, 2 days 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 …
3 weeks, 5 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 1…
4 weeks, 2 days 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 …
1 month ago