243 Episodes

  1. Fixing Democracy: Compulsory Voting

    Published: 10/8/2025
  2. Fixing Democracy: What’s Wrong with Referendums?

    Published: 10/5/2025
  3. Now & Then with Robert Saunders: From Kinnock to Corbyn to Starmer

    Published: 10/1/2025
  4. Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Neil Kinnock vs Militant

    Published: 9/28/2025
  5. Fixing Democracy: How to Stop Election Rigging

    Published: 9/24/2025
  6. Fixing Democracy: Citizens’ Assemblies

    Published: 9/21/2025
  7. Fixing Democracy: Parliamentary Reform

    Published: 9/17/2025
  8. Fixing Democracy: Electoral Reform

    Published: 9/14/2025
  9. Indignity w/Lea Ypi

    Published: 9/10/2025
  10. Dignity and Indignity w/Lea Ypi

    Published: 9/7/2025
  11. PPF+: More of What You’ve Been Missing!

    Published: 9/3/2025
  12. Politics on Trial: Hitler vs Weimar

    Published: 8/31/2025
  13. Politics on Trial: Easter Rising 1916 w/Fintan O’Toole

    Published: 8/28/2025
  14. PPF+: A Taste of What You've Been Missing!

    Published: 8/24/2025
  15. Politics on Trial 100th Anniversary Special: Franz Kafka’s The Trial

    Published: 8/21/2025
  16. Politics on Trial: Dreyfus vs the Conspiracy Theory

    Published: 8/17/2025
  17. Politics on Trial: Oscar Wilde vs the Philistines

    Published: 8/14/2025
  18. Now & Then with Robert Saunders: Whatever Happened to Unemployment?

    Published: 8/10/2025
  19. Politics on Trial: Charles Parnell vs the English

    Published: 8/7/2025
  20. Politics on Trial: The Haymarket Eight vs the Police

    Published: 8/3/2025

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Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter. Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.