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Past Present Future Podcast
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Today’s political fiction is a spy novel, a Cold War comedy and a meditation on the nature of good and evil: Graham Greene’s The Human Factor. Why has Greene so fallen out of fashion? And how did he prefigure the world of Slow Horses?
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s political fiction is a spy novel, a Cold War comedy and a meditation on the nature of good and evil: Graham Greene’s The Human Factor. Why has Greene so fallen out of fashion? And how did he prefigure the world of Slow Horses?
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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In our 2nd ep about Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, David talks to critic & memoirist Catherine Taylor about the novel’s place in the history of feminism. Why are the things that shocked its original readers not what shock its readers today?
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Today a path-breaking work of science fiction: David explores Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (1974), which imagines a world without the need for government or coercive authority. What makes this the most realistic of all utopias?
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In today’s PPF+ bonus David asks Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, about how Le Guin’s The Dispossessed matches up to his own understanding of the possibility of living without the Leviathan. And who else should we read?
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Past Present Future Podcast
Past Present Future Podcast
Final film in our current season of Films of Ideas screenings & live recordings coming up next week - 'Never Let Me Go' - with @adamrutherford.bsky.social.
🎬 Regent St Cinema, London
📅 Friday 19th June
⏰ 7pm
🎟️ Book your ticket here ⬇️
www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/never-...
Final film in our current season of Films of Ideas screenings & live recordings coming up next week - 'Never Let Me Go' - with @adamrutherford.bsky.social.
🎬 Regent St Cinema, London
📅 Friday 19th June
⏰ 7pm
🎟️ Book your ticket here ⬇️
www.regentstreetcinema.com/movie/never-...
‘We are all too busy looking for value in the places where we have been conditioned to find it. Too often, without our realising it, those are the places where value has been captured by others.’
David Runciman on keeping score.
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This is a great listen.
I've had The Golden Notebook stacked up on the Pile for a while now, very tempted by it now.
I didn't think I needed convincing to loathe North London male Communists from the 1950s but boy is this doing the trick.
Past Present Future Podcast
Past Present Future Podcast
Past Present Future Podcast
Kazuo Ishiguro’s haunting 2005 novel of the lives and loves of human clones became an equally haunting and unsettling film five years later. How should we imagine a world in which some people exist to...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s haunting 2005 novel of the lives and loves of human clones became an equally haunting and unsettling film five years later. How should we imagine a world in which some people exist to...
This is called giving the people what they want! 👍💚
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Today David explores Doris Lessing’s bold and brilliant The Golden Notebook (1962), about female emancipation, political disillusionment and much more. Why did Lessing insist that the novel’s original critics misunderstood what the book's about?
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Giles Wilkes
Any scoring system can be abused once it gets captured. But the fact remains that a scoring system can also be the most...
BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s PPF+ bonus David asks Luke Kemp, author of Goliath’s Curse, about how Le Guin’s The Dispossessed matches up to his own understanding of the possibility of living without the Leviathan. And who else should we read?
Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
