Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIan 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…
1 month ago
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Thatcher@100 – Her Legacy
Season 14 Episode 242
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Robert Saunders about the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. What is the…
1 month, 1 week ago
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Thatcher@100 – Her Life
Season 14 Episode 241
Today’s episode in our occasional series about momentous political anniversaries with historian Robert Saunders looks at the life and legacy of Marga…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Rise and Fall of Homo Sapiens
Episode 240
Today’s episode explores some very big picture history: David talks to palaeontologist and science writer Henry Gee about the story of the human spec…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Trump-like Leadership in German History w/Chris Clark: Part 2 – Chancellor, Tyrant, Emperor?
Episode 239
Part two of David’s conversation with historian Chris Clark asks whether the best historical insights into Trump-like leadership come from comparison…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Trump-like Leadership in German History w/Chris Clark: Part 1 – Kaiser Wilhelm II?
Episode 238
Today’s episode is the first of a two-part conversation with historian Chris Clark exploring how German history might help us understand Trump-like l…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Politics on Trial: France on Trial Part 2 – Vichy vs the Jews
Season 13 Episode 237
Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Politics on Trial: France on Trial – Pétain vs De Gaulle
Season 13 Episode 236
Today’s episode is the first of two on the extraordinary treason trial of Marshal Pétain in the summer of 1945 that ended up putting wartime France i…
2 months ago
Politics on Trial: The Moscow Show Trials
Season 13 Episode 235
Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the origins, conduct and legacy of the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks …
2 months ago
Politics on Trial: Darwin vs God / Darrow vs Bryan – the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial
Season 13 Episode 234
We return to our series about the most significant trials in history with the trial of the twentieth century: Scopes ‘Monkey’ (1925), which was meant…
2 months, 1 week ago