The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
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David Walter Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford, is an English academic and podcaster who until 2024 taught politics and history at the University of Cambridge, where he was Professor of Politics. From October 2014 to October 2018 he was also head of the Department of Politics and International Studies. In April 2024 he decided to resign his position at the university to focus on his podcast full-time. He was subsequently made Honorary Professor of Politics. .. more
Today’s bonus is part 2 of David’s conversation with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social about how the question of Irish Home Rule blew up British politics. What kept Britain from falling into the abyss of civil war in 1914?
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It's an amazing story, in which Conservatives supplied weapons to paramilitaries, built refugee camps and fomented mutiny in the army.
So here's a short intro...🧵
Home Rule shattered the Liberal Party, broke the women's suffrage movement, brought thousands onto the streets and drove Britain to the brink of civil war.
In the next two episodes, we ask why. So here a quick intro... 🧵
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Home Rule shattered the Liberal Party, broke the women's suffrage movement, brought thousands onto the streets and drove Britain to the brink of civil war.
In the next two episodes, we ask why. So here a quick intro... 🧵
Today’s episode in our occasional series with historian @robertsaunders.bsky.social on significant political anniversaries looks at the event that blew British politics apart at the start of 1886. The ‘Hawarden Kite’.
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Maduro: [In Spanish, Inner City Press interpretation] I am the the president of Venezuela, I consider myself a prisoner of war. I was captured at my home in Caracas
Judge: Let me intervene. There will be time for this
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An extra episode to accompany our Films of Ideas series: David explores The Designated Mourner by Wallace Shawn, the writer and co-star of My Dinner with Andre. How did a play first performed in 1996 turn into a prophetic text for our times?
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Today it’s the last in our series of live film episodes: David talks to film director & campaigner Beeban Kidron about Michel Gondry’s 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (2004), a much-loved film that’s also chock full of interesting ideas.
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The fourth episode in our season of live recordings is about Derek Jarman’s 'Wittgenstein' (1993), which tells the story of an extraordinary life in a way that is both light and profound. David talks to writer and philosopher Nikhil Krishnan.
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Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political.
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Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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Today in our season of live recordings David and @leaypi.bsky.social. look at the biopic of a revolutionary: Margaretha von Trotta’s 'Rosa Luxemburg' (1986), which explores the deeply unstable relationship between the personal and the political.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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I binge-read it - it's shockingly readable while dealing with heavy stuff. (philosophy etc).
#books #ideas #philosophy
David talks to film historian Harrison Whitaker about Frank Capra’s 'It’s A Wonderful Life' (1946), a Xmas tearjerker that also manages to be an exploration of personal identity, social justice, moral individualism & free will.
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The 2nd episode in our live series explores Louis Malle’s 'My Dinner with Andre' (1981), in which two men discuss the meaning of theatre, capitalism, love, science, faith and freedom over a meal. David talks to playwright and screenwriter Lee Hall.
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Today is the 1st in our series of live eps recorded at the Regent St Cinema in London: David talks to crime writers Nicci Gerrard & Sean French (aka @niccifrench.bsky.social) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play.
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Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade. How did Mandela defend himself?
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Hey
For the second year running my most listened to podcast is PPF.
Merry Christmas and here's to a (hopefully but unlikely) more peaceful 2026.
Today’s episode is about a momentous trial and the incendiary book that followed: the trial was of Adolf Eichmann, convicted by an Israeli court in 1961 of orchestrating the Holocaust, and the book was Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
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Bentham the Dickensian Gradgrind.
Here's Runciman and suddenly there's so much more to Bentham!
Fascinating and he tells it all like unraveling a mystery novel. 😎
"Blatant idiocy"! 🙆