Past Present Future Podcast

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@N78517074 @HelenHet20 Already there! just search Past Present Future.

@HelenHet20 I love your chats with David! Are you going to put this on Spotify?

Last week David Runciman and I resumed old conversations about the historical weirdness of the United States as a state and geopolitical power in the new circumstances of the second Trump presidency. Part I: ppfideas.com/episodes/talki…

@Slimshady1961 @TheNewsAgents @lewis_goodall He is not, since you ask!

@TheNewsAgents @lewis_goodall Grossman is part of the Runciman family, is he not? - the very definition of the idle rich....

"I had problems that were truly bizarre with David Grossman... who had drawn up a dossier trying to find anything to attack me with." @lewis_goodall recalls an "unpleasant" experience at the BBC, describing the intense scrutiny he faced from a boss after alleged impartiality.

One of my favourite public speakers making such elegant observations about one of my favourite films.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! The second David Fincher film in our series is The Social Network (2010), the Aaron Sorkin-scripted take on how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and the price paid by everyone else. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

@tareq_h_sholi Well we thank you Tareq!

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Our great political films series reaches the 21st century with Paul Thomas Anderson’s unforgettable There Will Be Blood (2007), starring Daniel Day-Lewis in one of the all-time great screen performances. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

@Nigelgd1 Thanks Nigel!

@PPFIdeas One of your very best. Compelling and brilliantly woven together.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! David talks to writer & journalist @helenlewis about David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), the film that launched a thousand memes. Does this tale of thwarted masculinity & corporate malfeasance code left or code right? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

@j_amesmarriott Getting it for David now!

Have been on a strange magical streak of extremely good books over Christmas. I think this - about a nunnery in the fourteenth century - is one of the best historical novels I've ever read. Possibly the best.

@mccannmr Correction coming!!

Great episode but... It's Public Enemy not NWA 😳

@gurgumo Thanks Gurgumo!

Congrats to @PPFIdeas! 👏👏👏 Read the article. There are some others gems #culture #Podcast

Delighted to find ourselves in @thetimes “40 best podcasts of 2024 — chosen by our critics” ☺️ thetimes.com/article/a2ee3b…

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Our political films season has reached the late 1980s with Do The Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee’s searing take on racial tension on a Brooklyn block on a boiling hot summer’s day. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

@Nigelgd1 Noted!

@PPFIdeas Superb, and put me in mind of a very different documentary, The Act of Killing. Would you consider doing an episode on this? m.imdb.com/title/tt237560…

BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! The second of our two episodes on Claude Lanzmann’s monumental Shoah (1985) explores the testimony of those who saw what was happening in Treblinka, Auschwitz and the Warsaw Ghetto. Join PPF+ to get all our bonuses: 🔗 ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s great political film is Akira Kurosawa’s epic of war and deception Kagemusha (1980). Set in late sixteenth-century Japan it tells the story of a thief tasked with impersonating a warlord.  Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

@sorryimonmute Thanks Ian!

@PPFIdeas These episodes were truly majestic

@wjpme @Shakespeare_Co @ruthbenghiat @JayneEEgerton Thanks John!

This is so timely & resonates hugely with where we are at & ties in with David Runciman’s @PPFIdeas recent talk @Shakespeare_Co.👏 @ruthbenghiat & ⁦@JayneEEgerton⁩ Podcast on film Z brilliant too as is the film. Must get the book! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

🚨 Newsletter #22 is out now! David writes on the ones that got away this year ... Eps we didn't do: US election 1948, UK election 2015, The Dispossessed, All the President's Men, and SELFIES!! You can sign up right here: it's fortnightly & free! ⬇️ ppfideas.com/newsletters