This week, Boris Dralyuk on a compelling portrait of the Black Sea port of Odesa, past and present; and Russell Williams is put in mind of the rumpled TV detective Columbo by a pacy French novel.
'Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War', by Julian Evans
'Bristol', by Jean Echenoz
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Today’s episode in our series on revolutionary ideas is a conversation covering two millennia with the historian Tom Holland exploring the never-ending upending of human understanding brought about by Christianity. How can weakness be the ultimate strength? How can political order be built out of the glorification of suffering? How can a universal religion create so much hierarchical division? And in a Christian world, is it ever possible to escape the charge of hypocrisy?
Out now on PPF+: the second part of David’s conversation with Agnes Callard about Socrates, exploring politics, AI, therapy and death. Sign up now for £5 per month or £50 for a whole year to get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Next up in The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Islam w/Tim Winter
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To begin our history of revolutionary ideas in earnest, David talks to the philosopher Agnes Callard about Socrates, the philosopher who changed – and can still change – everything. Just what is so radical about the Socratic method? How does it open up new ways of thinking about the meaning of life? Can anyone do it? And where does it leave 2000+ years of intervening philosophy?
Out tomorrow on PPF+: the second part of David’s conversation with Agnes Callard about Socrates, exploring politics, AI, therapy and death. Sign up now for £5 per month or £50 for a whole year to get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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This week, Vanessa Curtis is entranced by the candour of the Bloomsbury set's photograph albums; and Emma Greensmith on the mythical creatures that fascinated the ancient world.
'The Bloomsbury Photographs", by Maggie Humm
'Centaurs and Snake-Kings: Hybrids and the Greek Imagination', by Jeremy McInerney
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To kick off our new series on revolutionary ideas past, present and future David talks to two regular PPF contributors – the philosopher Lea Ypi and the scientist Adam Rutherford – about what makes an idea truly revolutionary. Do revolutionary ideas change the world? Can the world be changed without them? Can bad ideas ever be revolutionary ideas? And where should we be looking for revolutionary ideas today?
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Next Time: The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Socrates w/Agnes Callard
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The final episode in our great political films series explores Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (2023), his haunting take on the home life of the man who ran Auschwitz. This is a film like nothing else. It is not about the banality of evil or the proximity of innocence to horror. Instead it takes us inside a nightmare world from which there is no escape: the grimmest fairy story of them all.
Out now: a new bonus episodes on PPF+ exploring the joys of Armando Iannucci’s In The Loop, not just one of the smartest films about contemporary politics but also the funniest. Sign up now for £5 per month or £50 for a whole year to get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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Como a poesia se faz vizinha? No 126º episódio do 451 MHz, o poeta, editor e tradutor Carlito Azevedo reflete sobre os percursos que levaram à criação de sua coletânea de contos Vida: efeito-V (7Letras) e compartilha reflexões sobre os processos que moldaram sua criação literária nos últimos anos. A conversa explora experiências transformadoras, como a psicanálise, oficinas de poesia online durante a pandemia e a potência dos encontros em comunidades do Rio de Janeiro, que impulsionam uma profunda reinvenção pessoal e artística. O episódio foi realizado com apoio da Lei de Incentivo à Cultura e da Companhia das Letras. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
This week, JS Barnes trembles in his boots before the latest incarnation of a classic vampire tale; and Mary C Flannery on the practical magic of the medieval kitchen.
'Nosferatu', various cinemas
'Recipes and Book Culture in England, 1350-1600', Carrie Griffin and Hannah Ryley, editors
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The penultimate episode in our great political films series explores Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty (2012), her controversial take on the War on Terror. Tracking the CIA’s years-long pursuit of Osama Bin Laden, it’s part spy procedural, part story of a female outsider in a man’s world, and part a complex disquisition on political violence. Where does bureaucracy end and killing begin? Can torture ever be justified? And whose judgment is ultimately the one that counts?
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Next time: The Zone of Interest
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The second David Fincher film in our series (after Fight Club) is The Social Network (2010), the Aaron Sorkin-scripted take on how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook and the price paid by everyone else. A tale of power and privilege, innocence and cynicism, it is also about how exploitation can be sold as exclusivity. What is left when we have given away our control over who we are in order to decide who counts as a friend?
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Next time: Zero Dark Thirty
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This week, Alex Clark and Lucy Dallas look forward to 2025's most tempting reading, plan a Jane Austen road trip and resolve to sit up straight.
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Our great political films series reaches the twenty-first century with Paul Thomas Anderson’s unforgettable There Will Be Blood (2007), starring Daniel Day-Lewis as oilman Daniel Plainview in one of the all-time great screen performances. Based on Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! (1927), the movie swaps out Marx for Nietzsche and tells a story of money vs religion and family vs both. What, in the end, is the force that cannot be overcome?
Out now: two bonus episodes on PPF+ to accompany this series: Shoah part one and Shoah part two, exploring Claude Lanzmann’s path-breaking, harrowing, unforgettable 9-hour documentary about the Holocaust. Sign up to PPF+ to get all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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David talks to writer and journalist Helen Lewis about David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999), the film that launched a thousand memes. Does this tale of thwarted masculinity and corporate malfeasance code left or code right? Who, in the end, is Tyler Durden: Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk or Andrew Tate? Is Fight Club a relic of the pre-digital age or a prophetic vision of what was coming? And … Meat Loaf?!
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Next Time: There Will Be Blood
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Para encerrar 2024, o podcast da revista dos livros reprisa o episódio narrativo sobre o escritor português Luís Vaz de Camões, em comemoração aos seus 500 anos. Luís Vaz de Camões (1524-80) reinventou o soneto, viajou pelos sete mares, foi preso, deportado, exilado, perdeu um olho durante uma batalha, salvou seus manuscritos de um naufrágio e se entregou sem pudor aos amores e à boemia. Hoje é cantado na música pop, dá nome a um bife no Rio de Janeiro e virou até comercial de carro. Acima disso tudo, porém, está uma poesia que chega até nós em pleno vigor e beleza, inseminando a produção brasileira contemporânea. Nos 500 anos do poeta, este episódio narrativo resgata a biografia e decifra as múltiplas facetas desse apaixonado. Uma história contada em prosa e verso por Gregório Duvivier, Paulo Henriques Britto, Maria Bochicchio, Sabrina Sedlmayer, Luiz Antonio Simas e Rui Tavares, com textos lidos pela atriz Maria Manoella.
Episódio especial realizado com o apoio da Lei de Incentivo à Cultura e do Instituto Camões-CCP Brasília.
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