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Back to SearchPolitics on Trial: Muhammad Ali vs. the Draft
Season 13 Episode 254
Today’s episode is about the epic battle between Muhammad Ali and the US government over its attempt to draft him during the Vietnam war and what hap…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Home Rule for Ireland! - The Kite
Season 14 Episode 253
Today’s episode in our occasional series with historian Robert Saunders on significant political anniversaries looks at the event that blew British p…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Films of Ideas extra: The Designated Mourner
Season 16 Episode 252
An extra episode to accompany our Films of Ideas series: David explores The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn, the writer and co-star of My Dinner …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Films of Ideas: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind w/Beeban Kidron
Season 16 Episode 251
Today it’s the last in our series of live episodes recorded at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to film director and campaigner Beeban…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Films of Ideas: Wittgenstein w/Nikhil Krishnan
Season 16 Episode 250
The fourth episode in our season of live recordings from the Regent Street Cinema is about another film that explores the relationship between biogra…
6 months ago
Films of Ideas: Rosa Luxemburg w/Lea Ypi
Season 16 Episode 249
Today’s episode in our season of live recordings from the Regent Street Cinema looks at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s Rosa L…
6 months ago
Films of Ideas: My Dinner with Andre w/Lee Hall
Season 16 Episode 248
The second episode in our live series from the Regent Street Cinema explores Louis Malle’s My Dinner with Andre (1981), in which two men discuss the …
6 months, 1 week ago
Films of Ideas: Rope w/Nicci Gerrard & Sean French
Season 16 Episode 247
Today it’s the first in our series of live episodes recorded at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to the crime writers Nicci Gerrard an…
6 months, 1 week ago
Politics on Trial: Nelson Mandela vs Apartheid
Season 13 Episode 246
Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign …
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Politics on Trial: Eichmann in Jerusalem
Season 13 Episode 245
Today’s episode is about a momentous trial and the incendiary book that followed: the trial was of Adolf Eichmann, convicted by an Israeli court in 1…
6 months, 2 weeks ago