Zeitgeist Tapes

ELECTION! CLANGERS! What better combination could there be? Listen to @EmmaBurnell_ @PolProfSteve and guest @outonbluesix talk about Vote for Froglet - a Clangers election special that deserves the moniker. audioboom.com/posts/7416090-…

This month @PolProfSteve & @EmmaBurnell_ look at The Contender - a liberal fantasy from 2000 about making a woman the Vice President under unusual circumstances. Can't think why we chose it... audioboom.com/posts/8608337-…

This month - in the wake of protests from left & right @EmmaBurnell_ & @PolProfSteve discuss 1988 film Running on Empty. This "hallmark film for terrorists" looks at the long-term consequences of an illegal protest and its repercussions for one family audioboom.com/posts/8551366-…

NEW EPISODE! In another election special @PolProfSteve forces @EmmaBurnell_ to read Charles Dickens - thankfully only for a chapter. But did this set the tone for all fictional politics? And does that mean we owe the very existence of the pod to him? audioboom.com/posts/8517683-…

Later today my colleague @EmmaBurnell_ & I will be discussing Charles Dicken's description of the Eatanswill by-election, probably the first fictionalisation of an election for @ZTPodcast - here's some homework if you want to read it for yourself #link2HCH0013" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">gutenberg.org/cache/epub/580…

NEW EPISODE! This month @PolProfSteve and @EmmaBurnell_ are joined by @LoganComedyGuru to discuss the late Trevor Griffith's Comedians. A fascinating piece that explores the human politics of comedy in the 1970s. audioboom.com/posts/8500887-…

NEW EPISODE! And as a podcast that looks at where politics meets popular culture, we could only cover one thing this month. Here's @EmmaBurnell_ and @PolProfSteve take on Mr Bates Vs The Post Office (& their response to @DAaronovitch's take too!) audioboom.com/posts/8433131-…

NEW EPISIODE: To reflect on the death of Henry Kissinger @PolProfSteve and @EmmaBurnell_ look at Fail Safe. This bleak and cerebral story of nuclear confrontation was based on the same book as Dr Strangelove but definitely isn't played for laughs! audioboom.com/posts/8420890-…

New episode! You knew it had to happen. This month Emma and Steve discuss Succession.  This tale of a family battling over the future of a media empire has obvious real-world parallels. But should we care as much as we do? audioboom.com/posts/8315983-…

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This month, @EmmaBurnell_ and @PolProfSteve discuss the 1996 film Brassed Off. An unashamedly anti-Tory (and deservedly so) look at the destruction of coal mining communities through the medium of superb brass band music audioboom.com/posts/8304171-…

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New episode! This month, @PolProfSteve and @EmmaBurnell_ discuss My Fair Lady - the 1964 musical film based on a play by George Bernard Shaw. It's a (possibly baffling) classic. But what can it tell us about modern themes of class and gender? audioboom.com/posts/8281940-…

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NEW EPISODE! This month the tables are turned as @PolProfSteve interviews @EmmaBurnell_ about her recent play Triggered audioboom.com/posts/8240785-…

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NEW EPISODE: Carry on at your Convenience. This month @PolProfSteve and @EmmaBurnell_ discuss the Carry On take on industrial disputes. Where it seems the most successful strike was by the joke writers! audioboom.com/posts/8206989-…

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New episode! This month @EmmaBurnell_ and @PolProfSteve discuss This England - the somewhat triggering drama starring Kenneth Brannagh as Boris Johnson covering the early days of Covid. audioboom.com/posts/8176480-…

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NEW EPISODE! This time @EmmaBurnell_ and @PolProfSteve are joined by @mds49 to talk about @mrJamesGraham's six part drama Sherwood and the long shadow the 1984/5 miner's strike still casts over some communities audioboom.com/posts/8142315-…