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Now & Then with Robert Saunders: The Brexit Referendum 10 Years On
Jun 24, 2026
1h 03m 53s
Live Special: Jimmy Wales on the Lessons of Wikipedia
Jun 21, 2026
57m 17s
The Great Political Fictions: HHhH
Jun 17, 2026
58m 14s
The Great Political Fictions: The Years
Jun 14, 2026
56m 18s
The Great Political Fictions: The Human Factor
Jun 10, 2026
1h 00m 20s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/24/26 |  Now & Then with Robert Saunders: The Brexit Referendum 10 Years On | Today’s episode in our occasional series looking at significant political anniversaries explores the causes and consequences of the Brexit Referendum, which took place 10 years ago this week. David talks to historian Robert Saunders about why the referendum was called, how the vote was won and how it was lost, and what made it such a difficult decision to implement. Did the referendum change who we were or did it reveal who we are? And is it too soon to know what it all meant? Out tomorrow on PPF+: part two of this conversation in which David and Robert explore how we got from there to here, looking at the twists and turns of British politics over the last ten years and asking whether the state of British politics today is a consequence of what happened in June 2016. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ now https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus You can find out everything you need to know about this podcast – who we are, what we do, plus merch, events and full lists of all episodes including PPF+ bonus episodes on our website https://www.ppfideas.com Next time: Live Film Special – Never Let Me Go w/Adam Rutherford Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 1h 03m 53s | ||||||
| 6/21/26 | Live Special: Jimmy Wales on the Lessons of Wikipedia | Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival: David talks to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about what we can learn from the astonishing success of an encyclopaedia built by its users. When and how did people realise they could trust Wikipedia? What makes Wikipedia different from Uber, Airbnb and other online businesses that depend on public trust? Are there wider lessons for how we might do democracy differently? And what will happen to Wikipedia in the age of AI? Jimmy Wales’s book The Seven Rules of Trust is available now https://bit.ly/3Q4KuWT You can find out everything you need to know about this podcast – who we are, what we do, plus merch, events and full lists of all episodes including PPF+ bonus episodes on our website https://www.ppfideas.com Next Time: Now & Then with Robert Saunders – The Brexit Referendum 10 Years On Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 57m 17s | ||||||
| 6/17/26 | The Great Political Fictions: HHhH | Our final great political fiction (for now!) is a meta-fiction and auto-fiction that is also a compelling work of historical reconstruction. Laurent Binet’s HHhH (2010) tells the story of Operation Anthropoid, the mission that led to the assassination of Reinhold Heydrich, the architect of the Final Solution. Why was Binet so eager to recast history as a struggle between good and evil? How does he deal with all the evil that followed from this heroic attempt to do good? What makes his Nazis different from the ones to be found in other twenty-first century novels? Join us on Friday 19th June at the Regent Street Cinema in London for the final film in our current season: a screening of Never Let Me Go followed by a live podcast recording with geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford. Tickets available now https://bit.ly/4x641XC You can find out everything you need to know about this podcast – who we are, what we do, plus merch, events and full lists of all episodes including PPF+ bonus episodes on our website https://www.ppfideas.com Next Time: PPF Live – Jimmy Wales on the Lessons of Wikipedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 58m 14s | ||||||
| 6/14/26 | The Great Political Fictions: The Years | The penultimate great political fiction in this series is not strictly a fiction: it’s Annie Ernaux’s retelling of her own life in The Years (2008), thereby recapturing the story of France in the second half of the twentieth century. How can one woman’s story stand in for all the others? What does this book tell us about the passing of political time? Why do the years 1968 and 1981 mark the end of idealism? What comes next? Join us on Friday 19th June at the Regent Street Cinema in London for the final film in our current season: a screening of Never Let Me Go followed by a live podcast recording with geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford. Tickets available now https://bit.ly/4x641XC You can find out everything you need to know about this podcast – who we are, what we do, plus merch, events and full lists of all episodes including PPF+ bonus episodes on our website https://www.ppfideas.com Next Time in Great Political Fictions: HHhH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices | 56m 18s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 | The Great Political Fictions: The Human Factor✨ | political fictionspy novels+5 | Luke Kemp | PPF+Regent Street Cinema+4 | — | Graham GreeneThe Human Factor+7 | — | 1h 00m 20s | |
| 6/7/26 | The Great Political Fictions: The Dispossessed✨ | political fictionscience fiction+4 | Luke Kemp | The DispossessedGoliath’s Curse+1 | RussiaIsrael+1 | Ursula Le GuinThe Dispossessed+5 | — | 1h 02m 56s | |
| 6/3/26 | The Great Political Fictions: The Golden Notebook Part 2 w/Catherine Taylor✨ | feminismliterature+3 | Catherine Taylor | AeonThe Golden Notebook | London | Doris LessingThe Golden Notebook+3 | — | 1h 01m 02s | |
| 5/31/26 | The Great Political Fictions: The Golden Notebook✨ | female emancipationpolitical disillusionment+4 | Jimmy Wales | WikipediaThe Golden Notebook+1 | — | Doris LessingThe Golden Notebook+5 | — | 1h 00m 50s | |
| 5/27/26 | The Great Political Fictions: Brave New World✨ | political fictiondystopia+4 | — | Brave New WorldNineteen Eighty-Four+1 | — | Brave New WorldAldous Huxley+5 | — | 1h 05m 35s | |
| 5/24/26 |  Live Film Special: Good Night, and Good Luck w/Helen Lewis✨ | journalismMcCarthyism+4 | Helen Lewis | Good Night, and Good LuckBrave New World | London | Good Night and Good LuckHelen Lewis+6 | — | 1h 02m 21s | |
| 5/20/26 | The Starmer Crisis in Historical Perspective – Part 2: What’s Next?✨ | British politicshistorical perspective+4 | Robert SaundersDavid Klemperer+2 | Institute for Government | — | British politicshistorical perspective+4 | — | 1h 03m 46s | |
| 5/17/26 | The Starmer Crisis in Historical Perspective – Part 1✨ | British politicshistorical perspective+3 | Robert SaundersAnthony Seldon+3 | Institute for Government | — | Starmer crisisBritish politics+3 | — | 1h 13m 25s | |
| 5/13/26 | Where Are We Going? The Future Of Work✨ | future of workAI and employment+3 | Sarah O’Connor | Financial TimesWe Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work | — | future of workAI+3 | — | 1h 02m 28s | |
| 5/10/26 | Live Film Special: The Third Man w/Misha Glenny✨ | film analysisThe Third Man+4 | Misha Glenny | The Third ManGood Night, and Good Luck | ViennaRegent Street Cinema | The Third ManMisha Glenny+5 | — | 56m 54s | |
| 5/6/26 | Now & Then with Robert Saunders: The General Strike @100 Part 2✨ | General Strikehistorical analysis+4 | Robert Saunders | Wikipedia | Cheltenham Science Festival | General Strike1926+6 | — | 1h 01m 47s | |
| 5/3/26 | Now & Then with Robert Saunders: The General Strike @100✨ | general strikeBritish history+3 | Robert Saunders | Wikipedia | Cheltenham Science Festival | general strikeBritain+5 | — | 59m 49s | |
| 4/29/26 | Live Film Special: South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut w/Beeban Kidron✨ | film analysiscensorship+4 | Beeban Kidron | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | London | South Parkcensorship+6 | — | 1h 08m 47s | |
| 4/26/26 | Talking … Peter Mandelson and New Labour w/Helen Thompson✨ | New Labourpolitics+4 | Helen Thompson | New LabourPPF++1 | London | Peter MandelsonNew Labour+5 | — | 56m 53s | |
| 4/24/26 | PPF+: A Taste Of What You’ve Been Missing (Taster 2)✨ | politicsBrexit+5 | Robert SaundersShannon Vallor+1 | PPF+PPF Ideas+2 | South Africa | politiciansresignation+5 | — | 1h 00m 09s | |
| 4/23/26 | PPF+: A Taste Of What You’ve Been Missing (Taster 1)✨ | highlightshistory+4 | Helen ThompsonChris Clark | FrankensteinThe Futurist Manifesto+1 | liberal politics | PPF+highlights+5 | — | 54m 38s | |
| 4/22/26 | PPF+: A Taste Of What You’ve Been Missing (Taster 3)✨ | philosophyhistory+4 | Paul SagarHarrison Whittaker+2 | It’s A Wonderful LifeOrwell’s War | Hiroshima | bonus episodeHiroshima+3 | — | 1h 00m 06s | |
| 4/19/26 | Orwell’s War: Frozen In Time (1942-43)✨ | George OrwellWorld War II+4 | — | 1984 | — | OrwellWW2+5 | — | 57m 07s | |
| 4/15/26 | Orwell’s War: False Dawn (1940-41)✨ | George OrwellWorld War II+4 | Alec Ryrie | The Lion and the UnicornThe Age of Hitler | BritainFrance+1 | OrwellWorld War II+5 | — | 56m 28s | |
| 4/12/26 | Orwell’s War: The Nightmare (1938-39)✨ | George OrwellSecond World War+3 | Beeban Kidron | South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | London | OrwellSecond World War+3 | — | 1h 01m 44s | |
| 4/8/26 | Live Film Special: Metropolitan w/James Marriott✨ | film analysisyouth culture+3 | James Marriott | MetropolitanSouth Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut | London | MetropolitanJames Marriott+3 | — | 1h 01m 01s | |
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