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Past Present Future

Live Film Special: The Third Man w/Misha Glenny

Past Present Future

D&HR Media Ltd

History, Politics, News, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.7 • 747 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to the writer and broadcaster Misha Glenny about Carol Reed’s 1949 masterpiece The Third Man, written by Graham Greene and featuring a notorious film-stealing performance from Orson Welles. It’s a film about friendship and betrayal, double-crosses and double lives, divided loyalties and dubious moralities. It is also all about Vienna, a city with a double life of its own. Everyone involved in this film had something to hide: the question is, what? Join us on Wednesday 20th May at the Regent Street Cinema in London for the next film in our spring and summer season: a screening of George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck followed by a live podcast recording with David and writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis. Tickets available now https://bit.ly/4wfM5tb  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: Where Are We Going? The Future of Work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Music money side of the story. Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. Hello, my name's David Rundsman and this is past-present future, the History of Ideas podcast.

1:12.7

Today's episode is a live recording that took place this week at the Regent Street

1:17.3

cinema in London. I'm talking to the writer and broadcaster Misha Gleney, newly installed as the

1:23.3

host of Radio 4's In Our Time, about his favorite film, The Third Man, directed by Carol

1:30.4

Reid, written by Graham Green, starring among others, Orson Wells, and set in post-war

1:37.5

Vienna, a city with as many layers as the film itself.

1:47.0

As always, we realize that this is a conversation recorded directly after a screening,

1:52.7

and many of the people listening to this will never have seen the third man.

1:56.2

In the cinema, there were quite a few people who'd never seen it before,

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