PPF+: A Taste Of What You’ve Been Missing (Taster 3)

Past Present Future

D&HR Media Ltd

Politics, News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 747 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Today’s episode features some recent highlights from PPF+ where we have just released our 50th bonus episode. In this selection you’ll hear philosopher Paul Sagar talking about his personal experiences of good and back luck; David talking about what changed for Hiroshima and the world in the moments after the bomb fell; historian of film Harrison Whittaker on the link between It’s A Wonderful Life and Sartrean existentialism; Hannah White from the Institute for Government on why British government doesn’t work at the centre; and historian of Russia Edward Acton on how to understand the confessions at the Moscow Show Trials. Bonus #50 on PPF+ is the fourth and final part of Orwell’s War, looking at why George Orwell feared that the end of WW2 would lead to war without end. To get access to our full archive of 50 PPF+ bonus episodes plus two future bonuses every month 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 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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1:07.2	Hello, my name's David Rundsenman and this is past, present, future, the History of Ideas podcast.
1:08.4	This week, we put out our 50th bonus episode on PPF Plus, the final episode
1:14.9	in our series on George Orwell and the Second World War. Today, we're going to give you
1:21.1	some extracts from some of the other episodes that will be available for you when you sign up
1:26.7	to PPF Plus. All 50 episodes are there
1:29.8	and waiting. We did this last summer. These are some of the more recent episodes on PPF Plus.
1:36.5	What you're going to hear today are the philosopher Paul Seeger talking about his personal
1:42.5	experiences of good and bad luck, then it's me, reflecting
1:46.6	on the things that changed immediately before and immediately after the bomb fell on Hiroshima.
1:53.9	Then the historian of film Harrison Whitaker, discussing the relationship between It's a Wonderful
1:59.0	Life and Sartrian existentialism.
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