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Political Conversions: From Trotskyism to Neoconservatism
60 hours 55 mins; April 01, 2026
Political Conversions: Communism – The God That Failed
56 mins; March 29, 2026
Political Conversions: Going Fascist
65 hours 53 mins; March 25, 2026
Live Special: Another American Civil War?
60 hours 27 mins; March 22, 2026
Live Special: Is This How Democracy Ends? w/Lyse Doucet, Chris Clark & Thant Myint-U
73 hours 34 mins; March 18, 2026
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: The Twists and Turns of the Special Relationship
62 hours 41 mins; March 15, 2026
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Churchill’s ‘Iron Curtain’ Speech @80
65 hours 8 mins; March 11, 2026
Where Are We Going? Societal Collapse – The Future
64 hours 23 mins; March 08, 2026
Where Are We Going? Societal Collapse – The Present Day
64 hours 13 mins; March 04, 2026
Where Are We Going? Societal Collapse – The Modern Age
70 hours 6 mins; March 01, 2026
Where Are We Going? Societal Collapse – Origins
66 hours 0 mins; February 25, 2026
Where Are We Going? Nuclear War Part 3
55 mins; February 22, 2026
Where Are We Going? Nuclear War Part 2
62 hours 2 mins; February 18, 2026
Where Are We Going? Nuclear War Part 1
59 mins; February 15, 2026
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Bernard Williams and Judith Shklar
69 hours 20 mins; February 11, 2026
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Max Weber
64 hours 18 mins; February 08, 2026
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Adam Smith
60 hours 42 mins; February 04, 2026
What’s Wrong with Political Philosophy? Learning from Aristotle
72 hours 37 mins; February 01, 2026
Talking Geopolitics with Helen Thompson: The Weirdness of American Power Part 2
58 mins; January 28, 2026
Talking Geopolitics with Helen Thompson: The Weirdness of American Power
57 mins; January 25, 2026
Politics on Trial: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein
57 mins; January 21, 2026
Politics on Trial: O. J. Simpson vs the Evidence
78 hours 3 mins; January 18, 2026
Politics on Trial: The Gang of Four vs the New China
61 hours 0 mins; January 14, 2026
Politics on Trial: Muhammad Ali vs. the Draft
60 hours 54 mins; January 11, 2026
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Home Rule for Ireland! - The Kite
57 mins; January 07, 2026
Films of Ideas extra: The Designated Mourner
60 hours 8 mins; January 04, 2026
Films of Ideas: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind w/Beeban Kidron
64 hours 22 mins; December 31, 2025
Films of Ideas: Wittgenstein w/Nikhil Krishnan
59 mins; December 28, 2025
Films of Ideas: Rosa Luxemburg w/Lea Ypi
61 hours 55 mins; December 24, 2025
Films of Ideas: My Dinner with Andre w/Lee Hall
66 hours 41 mins; December 21, 2025
Films of Ideas: Rope w/Nicci Gerrard & Sean French
59 mins; December 17, 2025
Politics on Trial: Nelson Mandela vs Apartheid
65 hours 7 mins; December 14, 2025
Politics on Trial: Eichmann in Jerusalem
65 hours 6 mins; December 10, 2025
Politics on Trial: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
58 mins; December 07, 2025
Ian McEwan on the Present as Future Past
60 hours 44 mins; December 03, 2025
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Thatcher@100 – Her Legacy
63 hours 39 mins; November 30, 2025
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Thatcher@100 – Her Life
69 hours 28 mins; November 26, 2025
The Rise and Fall of Homo Sapiens
54 mins; November 23, 2025
Trump-like Leadership in German History w/Chris Clark: Part 2 – Chancellor, Tyrant, Emperor?
58 mins; November 19, 2025
Trump-like Leadership in German History w/Chris Clark: Part 1 – Kaiser Wilhelm II?
51 mins; November 16, 2025
Politics on Trial: France on Trial Part 2 – Vichy vs the Jews
51 mins; November 12, 2025
Politics on Trial: France on Trial – Pétain vs De Gaulle
65 hours 34 mins; November 09, 2025
Politics on Trial: The Moscow Show Trials
55 mins; November 05, 2025
Politics on Trial: Darwin vs God / Darrow vs Bryan – the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial
60 hours 25 mins; November 02, 2025
Live Special: Who Rules the World? Trump, Tech and the Fight for the Future
57 mins; October 29, 2025
Fixing Democracy Q&A w/David Klemperer: Oligarchy, Ageing Populations and How to Make Things Worse
64 hours 14 mins; October 26, 2025
Fixing Democracy: Confronting the Strongmen
71 hours 42 mins; October 22, 2025
Fixing Democracy: TikTok, Disinformation and Distraction
60 hours 55 mins; October 19, 2025
Live Special: Prime Minister Farage?
61 hours 59 mins; October 15, 2025
Fixing Democracy: Better Rhetoric
67 hours 12 mins; October 12, 2025
Fixing Democracy: Compulsory Voting
57 mins; October 08, 2025
Fixing Democracy: What’s Wrong with Referendums?
60 hours 50 mins; October 05, 2025
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: From Kinnock to Corbyn to Starmer
61 hours 47 mins; October 01, 2025
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Neil Kinnock vs Militant
62 hours 36 mins; September 28, 2025
Fixing Democracy: How to Stop Election Rigging
63 hours 39 mins; September 24, 2025
Fixing Democracy: Citizens’ Assemblies
65 hours 51 mins; September 21, 2025
Fixing Democracy: Parliamentary Reform
59 mins; September 17, 2025
Fixing Democracy: Electoral Reform
59 mins; September 14, 2025
Indignity w/Lea Ypi
66 hours 48 mins; September 10, 2025
Dignity and Indignity w/Lea Ypi
59 mins; September 07, 2025
PPF+: More of What You’ve Been Missing!
61 hours 11 mins; September 03, 2025
Politics on Trial: Hitler vs Weimar
65 hours 8 mins; August 31, 2025
Politics on Trial: Easter Rising 1916 w/Fintan O’Toole
59 mins; August 28, 2025
PPF+: A Taste of What You've Been Missing!
55 mins; August 24, 2025
Politics on Trial 100th Anniversary Special: Franz Kafka’s The Trial
59 mins; August 21, 2025
Politics on Trial: Dreyfus vs the Conspiracy Theory
66 hours 31 mins; August 17, 2025
Politics on Trial: Oscar Wilde vs the Philistines
63 hours 23 mins; August 14, 2025
Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Whatever Happened to Unemployment?
64 hours 50 mins; August 10, 2025
Politics on Trial: Charles Parnell vs the English
58 mins; August 07, 2025
Politics on Trial: The Haymarket Eight vs the Police
57 mins; August 03, 2025
Politics on Trial: John Brown vs Slavery
58 mins; July 31, 2025
Politics on Trial: Aaron Burr vs the Constitution
55 mins; July 27, 2025
Politics on Trial: Louis XVI vs the People
59 mins; July 24, 2025
Politics on Trial: Warren Hastings vs the British Empire
63 hours 14 mins; July 20, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: Identity
61 hours 35 mins; July 17, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: Behaviourism
64 hours 17 mins; July 13, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: Polycrisis
59 mins; July 10, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: Value-Free Tech
61 hours 3 mins; July 06, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: Monopoly
57 mins; July 03, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: Meritocracy
61 hours 59 mins; June 29, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: Charisma
59 mins; June 26, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: The Decisive Battle
60 hours 7 mins; June 22, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: Genius
56 mins; June 19, 2025
The History of Bad Ideas: Austerity
58 mins; June 15, 2025
Politics on Trial: Charles I vs Parliament
62 hours 40 mins; June 12, 2025
Politics on Trial: Galileo vs the Inquisition
64 hours 43 mins; June 08, 2025
50th Anniversary Special: The 1975 European Referendum w/Robert Saunders
60 hours 17 mins; June 05, 2025
Politics on Trial: Mary Queen of Scots vs the Secret State
54 mins; June 01, 2025
Politics on Trial: Thomas More vs the King
57 mins; May 29, 2025
Politics on Trial: Joan of Arc vs the Church
60 hours 1 min; May 25, 2025
Politics on Trial: Socrates vs Democracy
53 mins; May 22, 2025
Politics on Trial: A History of Lawfare
51 mins; May 18, 2025
Ideas of Globalisation: What’s Gone Wrong? w/Dani Rodrik
53 mins; May 15, 2025
Ideas of Globalisation: The Crisis of the 1970s (and Trump!)
63 hours 18 mins; May 11, 2025
Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)
55 mins; May 08, 2025
Ideas of Globalisation: Hoover and Smoot-Hawley (and Trump!)
61 hours 0 mins; May 04, 2025
Ideas of Globalisation: Chamberlain and the Tariff Wars (and Trump!)
57 mins; May 01, 2025
Ideas of Globalisation: Trade, Race and Empire (and Trump!)
59 mins; April 27, 2025
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Lenin and Trotsky
55 mins; April 24, 2025
PPF Live Special: Churchill – The Politician With Nine Lives w/Robert Saunders
62 hours 37 mins; April 20, 2025
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