PPF+: A Taste Of What You’ve Been Missing (Taster 1)

About this episode

This episode features highlights from the PPF+ archive, including discussions on literature, politics, and historical documentaries.

In today’s extra episode some more highlights from the PPF+ archive in a selection we first put out last summer: here are a few more excerpts we think you might enjoy. In this episode you’ll hear David talking to Helen Thompson about Apocalypse Now, David exploring Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, unpicking the relationship between The Futurist Manifesto and fascism, reflecting on Claude Lanzmann’s epic Holocaust documentary Shoah and in conversation with historian Chris Clark about 1848 and the future of liberal politics. To get these and all of our bonus episodes plus all future bonuses and ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ now. It’s £5 per month or £50 for the year and you will be helping this podcast to keep going and growing. You can also gift a 6-month or a 12-month PPF+ subscription: 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 and PPF+ bonus episodes on our website https://www.ppfideas.com Tomorrow: Some More Of What You’ve Been Missing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: David Runciman

Guests: Helen Thompson, Chris Clark

Topics covered

• highlights
• history
• politics
• literature
• documentary
• fascism

Keywords

• PPF+
• highlights
• Frankenstein
• Shoah
• fascism
• 1848
• liberal politics

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Frankenstein, The Futurist Manifesto, Shoah

Places: liberal politics

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