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American Elections: The Republican Convention
Season 3 Episode 87
This week we check back in with Gary Gerstle to discuss what’s been happening in American politics after a tumultuous week. What does it say about Tr…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: Hamilton
Season 2 Episode 86
Our series concludes with a musical: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s wildly popular and increasingly controversial Hamilton (2015). What does it get right and w…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: American Wife
Season 2 Episode 85
The penultimate episode in our fictions series is about Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife (2008), which re-imagines the life of First Lady Laura Bush…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Great Political Fictions: The Line of Beauty
Season 2 Episode 84
Our political fictions series returns with Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty (2004), which is set between Thatcher’s two dominant general electi…
1 year, 6 months ago
UK General Elections: 2024
Season 6 Episode 83
To wrap up our series David and Robert attempt some instant history on the election result that’s just happened: in some ways predictable, in others …
1 year, 6 months ago
UK General Elections: 2019
Season 6 Episode 82
For election day, David and Robert discuss the previous general election in December 2019, which saw Boris Johnson win a decisive victory under the s…
1 year, 6 months ago
UK General Elections: 1997
Season 6 Episode 81
In this extra episode for election week David talks to historian Robert Saunders about the last great Labour landslide of 1997, when Tony Blair won t…
1 year, 6 months ago
UK General Elections: 1979
Season 6 Episode 80
Today’s pivotal UK election is the one that brought Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street in 1979. David talks to historian Robert Saunders about how s…
1 year, 6 months ago
UK General Elections: 1945
Season 6 Episode 79
In today’s episode on pivotal UK elections David talks to historian Robert Saunders about the first great Labour landslide of 1945 and how it changed…
1 year, 6 months ago
UK General Elections: 1906
Season 6 Episode 78
The first episode in our new series with historian Robert Saunders on pivotal general elections is about the Tory disaster and Liberal triumph of 190…
1 year, 6 months ago