Hello, my name's David Rumsman and this is past, present future, the History of Ideas podcast.

Today we're doing something a little bit different. It is nearly 18 months since we started PPF Plus and there is now a really

substantial archive of bonus episodes available there straight away for anyone who signs up.

We wanted to give you just some of the highlights.

If you sign up to PPF Plus, and it is very straightforward, you'll have heard me say this before, you just need to click on the link in the show description or go to our website,

pfidies.com. You will get our entire archive of now 34 bonus episodes straight away. It costs five pounds

per month or 50 pounds for the year and you will get two bonus episodes every month going

forward. You also get ad-free listening and you get automatic sign up to our newsletter.

We are an independent podcast. We're not part of any big podcast stable. And we do rely on

PPF plus subscriptions. It is a way of supporting this podcast of keeping us going and growing.

We are immensely grateful to everybody who signs up to PPF Plus. And we just wanted to give you

an idea of what's there waiting for you.

You're going to hear clips from five of our bonus episodes in our archive. There's no single

theme here. These are episodes about big ideas. It's what we try and do on PPF. Some of the ideas

are quite dark. We're doing two of these episodes of highlights.

The next one is going to be a little bit lighter. Today, it's a little bit darker. You are going

to hear me talking about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. That was part of our series on

thinking about thinking machines. And I'm talking about what Frankenstein tells us about

revenge, about objectification, but also about democracy. You are going to hear me talking about

the futurist manifesto. That was part of our series on revolutionary ideas and the connection

between futurism and fascism.

As part of our series on great political films, I talked on PPF Plus about Claude Lansman's

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