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"Televised Leadership Debates" Are these supposed exchanges of ideas ever much more than a competition to avoid gaffes? And what did British politics gain when it introduced them (apart from a brief attack of Cleggmania)? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! We resume our series on the Great Political Films with Costa-Gavras’s Z (1969), the quintessential late 60s movie about assassination, conspiracy, street politics and police brutality. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode is a conversation between David and the former politician Chris Smith (long-time MP and Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in Tony Blair’s first government) about The Candidate (1972). Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

"The Candidate" (1972), the first great political film of the 1970s. How does its portrayal of the compromises of running for office hold up today? Is it a cynical film or an inspiring one? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s great political film is Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman (1975), a classic of feminist cinema that was voted the greatest film of all time in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Earlier this month we were lucky enough to enjoy a few days' stay at Shakespeare & Co and our part of the bargain was David having a conversation about the History of Ideas. It really was a fantastic event, one of our best. Have a listen 🎧 ⬇️ podfollow.com/1040121937/epi…

BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! The first of two episodes about Claude Lanzmann’s epic 9-hour documentary Shoah (1985) recording eye-witness testimony from survivors of, bystanders to and perpetrators of the Holocaust.  Join PPF+ to get all our bonuses: 🔗 ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

🚨 Newsletter #22 is out now! David writes on the ones that got away this year ... Eps we didn't do: US election 1948, UK election 2015, The Dispossessed, All the President's Men, and SELFIES!! You can sign up right here: it's fortnightly & free! ⬇️ ppfideas.com/newsletters

BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! The second of our two episodes on Claude Lanzmann’s monumental Shoah (1985) explores the testimony of those who saw what was happening in Treblinka, Auschwitz and the Warsaw Ghetto. Join PPF+ to get all our bonuses: 🔗 ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s great political film is Akira Kurosawa’s epic of war and deception Kagemusha (1980). Set in late sixteenth-century Japan it tells the story of a thief tasked with impersonating a warlord.  Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Our political films season has reached the late 1980s with Do The Right Thing (1989), Spike Lee’s searing take on racial tension on a Brooklyn block on a boiling hot summer’s day. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Delighted to find ourselves in The Times and The Sunday Times “40 best podcasts of 2024 — chosen by our critics” ☺️ thetimes.com/article/a2ee3b…

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! David talks to writer & journalist Helen Lewis about David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), the film that launched a thousand memes. Does this tale of thwarted masculinity & corporate malfeasance code left or code right? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Our great political films series reaches the 21st century with Paul Thomas Anderson’s unforgettable There Will Be Blood (2007), starring Daniel Day-Lewis in one of the all-time great screen performances. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! The second David Fincher film in our series is The Social Network (2010), the Aaron Sorkin-scripted take on how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and the price paid by everyone else. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

One of my favourite public speakers making such elegant observations about one of my favourite films.