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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Coriolanus
Season 8 Episode 96
In the first episode of the summer daily re-release of our series on the Great Political Fictions, David talks about Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (1608-9…
1 year, 4 months ago
What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964?
Season 7 Episode 95
What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964?
For our latest counterfactual David talks to historian Thant Myint-U about his grandfather U Thant, UN Sec…
1 year, 4 months ago
What If… The Vietnam War Had Ended in 1964?
Season 7 Episode 95
For our latest counterfactual David talks to historian Thant Myint-U about his grandfather U Thant, UN Secretary General for most of the 1960s and th…
1 year, 4 months ago
What If… Wallace not Truman Had Become US President in 1945?
Season 7 Episode 94
Today’s episode explores one of the big counterfactuals of twentieth-century American politics: David talks to historian Benn Steil about how close t…
1 year, 4 months ago
What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?
Season 7 Episode 93
For our second episode on big historical counterfactuals, David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to glo…
1 year, 5 months ago
What If… Science Counterfactuals w/ Adam Rutherford
Season 7 Episode 92
To kick off our new series on counterfactual histories David talks to the geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford about whether ‘What Ifs’ make…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: Tim Rice on Evita
Season 2 Episode 91
Something different for our last episode on the Great Political Fictions as this time David talks to the person who wrote it: Tim Rice, the lyricist …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: Helen Lewis on To Kill A Mockingbird
Season 2 Episode 90
David talks to the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis about Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), one of the most widely read and best-loved nov…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: Lea Ypi on The Wild Duck
Season 2 Episode 89
The writer and political philosopher Lea Ypi talks about the impact on her of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck (1884), which she first read when she was …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Great Political Poems
Season 2 Episode 88
David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of the LRB’s Close Readings poetry podcast, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetr…
1 year, 5 months ago