Hello, my name is David Runsman and this is Talking Politics. This is a little mini episode

to tell you about our plans for the summer. We are going to be putting out a series of

short guides to some of the things that we talk about in the background most weeks with

the people who really know about them. As a chance to fill in some of the gaps in our

conversations but we hope also to give you a sense of what the people who regularly appear

on this podcast are most interested in. I've recorded a series of conversations with some

of our regular panelists about the things that they spend their lives studying, they're

very passionate about, they're really knowledgeable about and I learnt a lot from these conversations.

So we're going to be talking about the 1970s, technocracy, justice, nuclear weapons, American

foreign policy, machine learning. They're short of the normal, we hope there'll be nice

things to take away on holiday with you. You can pick and choose, it would be great if

you listened to all of them. We're going to be putting out two a week, we're also going

to be putting out a guide to our recommendations for summer reading, the things that we've

loved reading, the things that we're really looking forward to reading. We hope this will

get you through the summer, we're also going to be having some regular panels too. In the

middle of this we're going to be doing a festival event at Wilderness talking about the

politics of food, a subject we've never done before. Thank you to everyone who's shared

there summer reading suggestions on Twitter, check it out at T.P. podcast underscore, you

can follow that thread. It's been another amazing crazy year of talking about politics,

we love doing this. This podcast continues to grow and we've got big plans for the autumn

and I hope lots of exciting things coming up. We're going to be talking to Hillary Mantel

about Tudor politics, we're going to be talking to Adam Tuz about what the financial crash

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