The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
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David Walter Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford, is an English academic and podcaster who until 2024 taught politics and history at the University of Cambridge, where he was Professor of Politics. From October 2014 to October 2018 he was also head of the Department of Politics and International Studies. In April 2024 he decided to resign his position at the university to focus on his podcast full-time. He was subsequently made Honorary Professor of Politics. .. more
Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political.
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Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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I binge-read it - it's shockingly readable while dealing with heavy stuff. (philosophy etc).
#books #ideas #philosophy
David talks to film historian Harrison Whitaker about Frank Capra’s 'It’s A Wonderful Life' (1946), a Xmas tearjerker that also manages to be an exploration of personal identity, social justice, moral individualism & free will.
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The 2nd episode in our live series explores Louis Malle’s 'My Dinner with Andre' (1981), in which two men discuss the meaning of theatre, capitalism, love, science, faith and freedom over a meal. David talks to playwright and screenwriter Lee Hall.
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Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play.
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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. How did Mandela defend himself?
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Hey
For the second year running my most listened to podcast is PPF.
Merry Christmas and here's to a (hopefully but unlikely) more peaceful 2026.
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 1961 of orchestrating the Holocaust, and the book was Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
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Bentham the Dickensian Gradgrind.
Here's Runciman and suddenly there's so much more to Bentham!
Fascinating and he tells it all like unraveling a mystery novel. 😎
"Blatant idiocy"! 🙆
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Call it the ghosts of two podcasts past!
It'll be in the GD POLITICS podcast feed later today!
In this PPF+ bonus to accompany our episode on the Lady Chatterley’s Lover trial, David explores the book at the heart of the case. Does the focus on sex miss the central themes of the book? And what is it with the red trousers?
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Today we return to our series about epoch-making trials with the case of the book they tried & failed to ban. In 1960 Penguin Books was prosecuted over its plans to produce a cheap, unexpurgated edition of DH Lawrence’s 'Lady Chatterley’s Lover.'
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@bunkerpod.bsky.social
@rostaylor.bsky.social for More Jam Tomorrow
& National Museums Liverpool podcast