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Back to SearchThe History of Revolutionary Ideas: Marx and the Paris Commune
Season 11 Episode 174
Today the first of four episodes about Parisian revolutions. We start with the definitive nineteenth-century revolutionary and his definitive revolut…
9 months ago
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Free Speech
Season 11 Episode 173
Today’s revolutionary idea is one with a long history, not all of it revolutionary: David talks to the historian Fara Dabhoiwala about the idea of fr…
9 months ago
PPF Live Film Special: Network w/Helen Lewis
Season 10 Episode 172
We take a brief break from revolutionary ideas for a special live episode of PPF recorded in front of an audience at the Regent Street Cinema in Lond…
9 months, 1 week ago
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Darwin w/Adam Rutherford
Season 11 Episode 171
David talks to geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford about the book that fundamentally altered our understanding of just about everything: Da…
9 months, 1 week ago
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Taiping Revolution
Season 11 Episode 170
Today’s revolutionary ideas come from China: David talks to historian Julia Lovell about the Taiping Revolution, another massive mid-19th-century uph…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: 1848: The Radical Revolution w/Chris Clark
Season 11 Episode 169
In our second of three episodes on the revolutions that swept through Europe in 1848 David and Chris Clark explore the forces demanding radical chang…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: 1848: The Liberal Revolution w/Chris Clark
Season 11 Episode 168
In the first of three episodes about the revolutions that swept through Europe in 1848 David is joined by historian Chris Clark to explore the ideas …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: The Bayesian Revolution w/David Spiegelhalter
Season 11 Episode 167
Today’s revolutionary idea is something a bit different: David talks to statistician David Spiegelhalter about how an eighteenth-century theory of pr…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Slave Uprising: The Haitian Revolution
Season 11 Episode 166
Today’s episode is about a very different revolution from any we’ve discussed so far: David talks to historian Hank Gonzalez about the Haitian Revolu…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: French Revolution 3: Paine
Season 11 Episode 165
For our third episode on the ideas behind the French Revolution, David talks to Richard Whatmore about the ubiquitous Thomas Paine, the Englishman wh…
10 months ago