Tag: Past Present Future
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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 ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/wsvaSjx Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Julian Jackson about the case of Marshal Pétain and the crimes of the Vichy regime. Did Pétain… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/ZpV5PR3 Today’s episode is the first of two on the extraordinary treason trial of Marshal Pétain in the summer of 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/KW5YgwE Today’s episode is the first of two exploring the origins, conduct and legacy of the Moscow Show Trials that Stalin staged from 1936-38. David talks to historian of… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/AlvtnSV Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival: David talks to Bruno Maçães and Sarah Wynn-Williams about who is winning in the fight… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/ktd1o0P In today’s episode the two Davids try to answer some of the hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions we have had in response to this series, ranging from… more ›