Past Present Future

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Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter.Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future.New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.Take back your personal data with Inco...

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Notable Guests

Lea Ypi9×CChris Clark7×RRobert Saunders7×HHelen Lewis7×LLucia Rubinelli5×HHelen Thompson5×

Bertolt Brecht4×

Donald Trump4×

Adam Rutherford

Adam Rutherford4×

Episodes (305)

The Rise and Fall of Homo Sapiens

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Trump-like Leadership in German History w/Chris Clark: Part 2 – Chancellor, Tyra...

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Trump-like Leadership in German History w/Chris Clark: Part 1 – Kaiser Wilhelm I...

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Politics on Trial: France on Trial Part 2 – Vichy vs the Jews

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Politics on Trial: France on Trial – Pétain vs De Gaulle

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Politics on Trial: The Moscow Show Trials

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Politics on Trial: Darwin vs God / Darrow vs Bryan – the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial

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Live Special: Who Rules the World? Trump, Tech and the Fight for the Future

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Fixing Democracy Q&A w/David Klemperer: Oligarchy, Ageing Populations and How to...

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Fixing Democracy: Confronting the Strongmen

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Fixing Democracy: TikTok, Disinformation and Distraction

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Live Special: Prime Minister Farage?

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Fixing Democracy: Better Rhetoric

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Fixing Democracy: Compulsory Voting

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Fixing Democracy: What’s Wrong with Referendums?

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Now & Then with Robert Saunders: From Kinnock to Corbyn to Starmer

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Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Neil Kinnock vs Militant

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Fixing Democracy: How to Stop Election Rigging

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Fixing Democracy: Citizens’ Assemblies

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Fixing Democracy: Parliamentary Reform

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Fixing Democracy: Electoral Reform

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Indignity w/Lea Ypi

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Dignity and Indignity w/Lea Ypi

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PPF+: More of What You’ve Been Missing!

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Politics on Trial: Hitler vs Weimar

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Politics on Trial: Easter Rising 1916 w/Fintan O’Toole

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PPF+: A Taste of What You've Been Missing!

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Politics on Trial 100th Anniversary Special: Franz Kafka’s The Trial

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Politics on Trial: Dreyfus vs the Conspiracy Theory

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Politics on Trial: Oscar Wilde vs the Philistines

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Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Whatever Happened to Unemployment?

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Politics on Trial: Charles Parnell vs the English

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Politics on Trial: The Haymarket Eight vs the Police

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Politics on Trial: John Brown vs Slavery

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Politics on Trial: Aaron Burr vs the Constitution

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Politics on Trial: Louis XVI vs the People

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Politics on Trial: Warren Hastings vs the British Empire

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The History of Bad Ideas: Identity

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The History of Bad Ideas: Behaviourism

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The History of Bad Ideas: Polycrisis

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The History of Bad Ideas: Value-Free Tech

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The History of Bad Ideas: Monopoly

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The History of Bad Ideas: Meritocracy

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The History of Bad Ideas: Charisma

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The History of Bad Ideas: The Decisive Battle

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The History of Bad Ideas: Genius

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The History of Bad Ideas: Austerity

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Politics on Trial: Charles I vs Parliament

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Politics on Trial: Galileo vs the Inquisition

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50th Anniversary Special: The 1975 European Referendum w/Robert Saunders

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