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

Past Present Future

D&HR Media Ltd

Politics, News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 747 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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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

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1:06.2	Hello, my name's David Rundsenman and this is past-present future, the History of Ideas podcast.
1:07.4	Today, it's the first of the two extra episodes that we're putting out this week,
1:12.8	giving another sample of the 50 episodes that are now available for you if you sign up on PPF Plus.
1:20.2	We put these two episodes out last summer when there were not quite as many bonus episodes as there are today,
1:26.8	but you're going to hear
1:27.8	another selection from the archive.
1:34.9	If you sign up to PPF Plus, and it is very straightforward, you'll have heard me say this
1:39.4	before, you just need to click on the link in the show description or go to our website,
1:43.7	pfideas.com.
1:45.7	You will get our entire archive of bonus episodes straight away. It costs five pounds per
1:51.6	month or 50 pounds for the year and you will get two bonus episodes every month going forward.
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