Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNow & Then with Robert Saunders: Neil Kinnock vs Militant
Season 14 Episode 224
Today’s episode in our occasional series with Robert Saunders to mark momentous events in British political history explores the lasting consequences…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Fixing Democracy: How to Stop Election Rigging
Season 15 Episode 223
In today’s episode on how to fix democracy David talks to political scientist Nic Cheeseman about how to stop governments rigging elections around th…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Fixing Democracy: Citizens’ Assemblies
Season 15 Episode 222
David talks to Claudia Chwalisz, founder and CEO of Democracy Next, about how citizens’ assemblies could help fix what’s wrong with democracy. Where …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Fixing Democracy: Parliamentary Reform
Season 15 Episode 221
In today’s episode David talks to Hannah White, Director of the Institute for Government, about legislatures in general and the British parliament in…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Fixing Democracy: Electoral Reform
Season 15 Episode 220
For the first episode in a new series about the ideas that could help democracy work better David talks to David Klemperer of the Constitution Societ…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Indignity w/Lea Ypi
Episode 219
David talks to Lea Ypi about her new book Indignity: A Life Reimagined, which tells the story of her grandmother’s extraordinary life and in doing so…
4 months ago
Dignity and Indignity w/Lea Ypi
Episode 218
Today’s episode is the first in a three-part conversation with philosopher and writer Lea Ypi about the idea of dignity and its role in the history o…
4 months ago
PPF+: More of What You’ve Been Missing!
Episode 217
In today’s episode some more highlights from the PPF+ archive of 35 bonus episodes and counting: here are a few more excerpts we think you might enjo…
4 months, 1 week ago
Politics on Trial: Hitler vs Weimar
Season 13 Episode 216
Today’s epic political trial is the one that should have been the end of Adolf Hitler but ended up being the making of him: his treason trial in 1924…
4 months, 1 week ago
Politics on Trial: Easter Rising 1916 w/Fintan O’Toole
Season 13 Episode 215
Today it’s the first of two episodes with journalist and historian Fintan O’Toole about the trials that followed the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. W…
4 months, 2 weeks ago