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Episode 214
Today’s episode is something a little bit different – it is nearly 18 months since we started PPF+ and there are now 34 bonus episodes waiting for you as soon as you sign up. It costs £5 per month or…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Politics on Trial 100th Anniversary Special: Franz Kafka’s The Trial
Season 13 Episode 213
Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about the most famous trial in literature and one that never actually takes place. David talks to writer and literary scholar Ian Ellison about Franz Kafka’s T…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Politics on Trial: Dreyfus vs the Conspiracy Theory
Season 13 Episode 212
Today in Politics on Trial David tells the tale of the Dreyfus Affair that split France down the middle at the turn of the last century and revealed the grip of a whole host of conspiracy theories. A…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Politics on Trial: Oscar Wilde vs the Philistines
Season 13 Episode 211
Today’s episode in Politics on Trial is about three trials that took place over two months in the late spring of 1895 that brought about the destruction of Oscar Wilde. Why did Wilde trigger his own …
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Whatever Happened to Unemployment?
Season 14 Episode 210
Today’s episode is the first in a new strand with the historian Robert Saunders looking at significant political anniversaries and their meaning for today. Summer 2025 is 70 years since the UK record…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Politics on Trial: Charles Parnell vs the English
Season 13 Episode 209
For today’s episode in Politics on Trial it’s two trials for the price of one, which between them changed the course of British and Irish history. In 1889 the leading Irish politician Charles Parnell…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Politics on Trial: The Haymarket Eight vs the Police
Season 13 Episode 208
Today’s political trial is one of the most notorious in American history: eight men charged with and convicted of murder in 1886 for a terrorist outrage that none of them committed. A bomb had been t…
Published on 3 months ago
Politics on Trial: John Brown vs Slavery
Season 13 Episode 207
Today’s great political trial concerns the prosecution and execution of John Brown in 1859 for his raid on Harper’s Ferry in the attempt to free America’s slaves, an event that helped precipitate the…
Published on 3 months ago
Politics on Trial: Aaron Burr vs the Constitution
Season 13 Episode 206
For today’s epic political trial, David talks to American historian and PPF regular Gary Gerstle about the treason trial of Aaron Burr in 1807. Why was Burr not put on trial for killing Alexander Ham…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Politics on Trial: Louis XVI vs the People
Season 13 Episode 205
Today’s epoch-making political trial concerns the interrogation, conviction and execution of Louis XVI at the heart of the French Revolution in 1792-3. For many at the time and since this event had p…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago