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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Atlas Shrugged
Season 8 Episode 106
In today’s episode David discusses Ayn Rand’s insanely long and insanely influential Atlas Shrugged (1957), the bible of free-market entrepreneuriali…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mother Courage & Her Children
Season 8 Episode 105
Our ninth Great Political Fiction is Bertolt Brecht’s classic anti-war play, written in 1939 at the start of one terrible European war but set in the…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: The Time Machine
Season 8 Episode 104
Our eighth Great Political Fiction is H. G. Wells’ The Time Machine (1895) which isn’t just a book about time travel. It’s also full of late-19th cen…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Season 8 Episode 103
Today’s Great Political Fiction is Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) - a story that it’s easy to know without really knowing it at all. David explores all…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Phineas Redux
Season 8 Episode 102
The sixth Great Political Fiction in our summer re-release is Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Redux (1874), his lightly and luridly fictionalised account …
1 year, 10 months ago
Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Middlemarch Part 2
Season 8 Episode 101
This second episode about George Eliot’s masterpiece explores questions of politics and religion, reputation and deception, truth and public opinion.…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Middlemarch Part 1
Season 8 Episode 100
Today’s Great Political Fiction is George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1872), which has so much going on that it needs two episodes to unpack it. In this epi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Fathers and Sons
Season 8 Episode 99
Our fourth Great Political Fiction is Ivan Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons (1862), the definitive novel about the politics – and emotions – of intergener…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Mary Stuart
Season 8 Episode 98
Our third Great Political Fiction is Friedrich Schiller’s monumental play Mary Stuart (1800), which lays bare the impossible choices faced by two que…
1 year, 10 months ago
Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Gulliver’s Travels
Season 8 Episode 97
Today’s episode on the Great Political Fictions is about Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) – part adventure story, part satire of early-eigh…
1 year, 10 months ago