Finale
TALKING POLITICS
Catherine Carr
4.7 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
David, Helen and Catherine get together for our final episode, to reflect on podcasting through six extraordinary years of politics, and what it means to be ending at the beginning of a war. We talk about the current crisis, how it connects to the crises of the past, and where it might fit in to the crises of the future. This episode is dedicated to Finbarr Livesey and Aaron Rapport.
So you don’t miss us too much…
- You can follow Catherine’s work on Relatively and The Exchange on R4. She tweets @CatherineECarr
- Read David in the pages of the LRB
- Or check out his most recent book, Confronting Leviathan
- Helen’s new book, Disorder is now out!
- And she writes a column for the New Statesman and tweets @HelenHet20
- Our website - keep an eye out for archive curation - underway soon!
In grateful memory of our colleagues Aaron Rapport and Finbarr Livesey
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name's David Rundsenman, and this is the last episode of Talking Politics. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm with Helen Thompson, our producer, Catherine Carr, and we're going to be talking a bit |
| 0:27.6 | about the past, the present and the future. |
| 0:33.5 | Talking politics has been brought to you for the last five years in partnership with the London Review of Books, |
| 0:38.9 | who are mourning the end of the podcast the only way they know how, with one last unbeatable subscription offer for Talking Politics listeners. |
| 0:46.9 | Get six issues, that's three months of the LRB, where I'll be continuing to write about politics and more for just £6 by using the URL |
| 0:55.8 | Lrb.me slash talk6. That's lrb.me slash talk six. Because this is our last episode, the first thing that we wanted to do was to dedicate it to Finbar |
| 1:19.9 | Livesey and Aaron Rapport. Finnby and Aaron were dearly loved colleagues of ours and many |
| 1:26.1 | listeners may not have heard their voices. |
| 1:28.8 | They both died tragically young in the summer of 2019 and we wanted to remember them. |
| 1:36.8 | They have to suck it up. |
| 1:38.2 | And this is one of the fragile moments, I think, for the electoral process in America. |
| 1:42.0 | If they don't suck it up, they're basically saying all bets are off. |
| 1:45.5 | It's not a Cold War question, right? |
| 1:46.7 | It's a current events question. |
| 1:48.5 | And I think we oftentimes think of this debate as somewhat historical. |
| 1:52.5 | It is historical in that it should be informed by history, |
| 1:55.3 | but it's very much contemporary, |
| 1:57.5 | especially as the United States and Russia and China are all thinking about ways of |
| 2:03.8 | modernizing their arsenals, making them more accurate, making them more protectable, making |
| 2:09.5 | them more usable in a way. |
| 2:12.1 | Hearing those two clips does make me feel as I've often found myself thinking what would |
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