Tag: Past Present Future
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Listen: https://ift.tt/2CaJL8p Today’s episode was recorded last Wednesday in front of a live audience at Friends’ House in London, where David was joined by the BBC’s Lyse Doucet, historian Chris… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/ZRmKCEe In the fourth and final conversation in this series David talks to Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, about where we might be heading. Where does the greatest risk… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/AaiZqgF Today’s episode is the first in a series of conversations about what causes human societies to fall apart and what might come next. David talks to Luke Kemp,… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/lCNWGsX Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with Helen Thompson about what makes living in a world dominated by the United States so strange. What has… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Tjfrln3 The first of a two-part conversation in which David talks to Helen Thompson about how to understand the extraordinary and unlikely power of the United States, from its… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/EKgA9az For the penultimate episode in this series David examines the criminal trial of O. J. Simpson in 1995 to ask what it reveals about how power really works… more ›
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Listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4w2rGct1HE074Prd6xYFrg?si=6vpXyd0tTvCEMawFYfGNaw Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade that… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/rEn5U6g David talks to novelist Ian McEwan, who was our first ever guest on PPF, about how the future will view our present once the disasters we are brewing… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/u38AbNP Today’s episode explores some very big picture history: David talks to palaeontologist and science writer Henry Gee about the story of the human species from origin to peak to inevitable… more ›