PPF+: A Taste Of What You’ve Been Missing (Taster 2)

Past Present Future

D&HR Media Ltd

Politics, News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 747 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In today’s extra episode some more highlights from the PPF+ archive in another 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 about In the Loop and the question of why politicians do and don’t resign; Robert Saunders on the legacy of Brexit for politics today; Shannon Vallor on why AI is a vision not of the future but of the past; David on the appeal of High Noon for American presidents; and Alec Ryrie on the relationship between Calvinism, Puritanism and the rise and fall of apartheid South Africa. 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 Next Time: Helen Thompson on Peter Mandelson and New Labour 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.
1:07.5	Today, it is the second of the two extra episodes we're putting out this week with another
1:12.5	selection from the PPF Plus archive.
1:15.8	Again, this is an episode that we put out last summer, five more extracts to give you a chance
1:22.1	to hear what you might have been missing.
1:27.3	In what follows, you're going to hear extracts that don't have a common theme.
1:31.9	We try to find a common theme, but there really isn't one, except we think of ourselves as a
1:36.7	pretty eclectic podcast, and we hope that all of these extracts are in their different
1:41.4	ways thought-provoking.
1:44.1	First up, from our series about great
1:46.6	political films, I talked about what is my favourite funny political film, In the Loop by Armando
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