This week, Lily Herd heads for outer space in the company of a prodigious imagination; and Andrew Motion joins us with a wonderful new poem.
'Collected Stories' by Cixin Liu, translated by John Chu, Andy Dudak et al
'All that We See or Seem', by Ken Liu
'Snow', by Andrew Motion
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Today it’s the first in our series of live episodes recorded at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to the crime writers Nicci Gerrard and Sean French (aka Nicci French) about Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948), based on Patrick Hamilton’s play of the same name, itself based on the real-life case of Leopold and Loeb. What is the true subject of this film: murder, sex, morality or something else? Why is James Stewart so hopelessly miscast? And how does all this connect to Nietzsche?
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Next time: My Dinner with Andre w/Lee Hall
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Today’s episode explores the trials of Nelson Mandela, variously charged by South Africa’s apartheid state with treason, incitement, illegal foreign travel, sabotage and conspiracy across a decade that saw him more often in court than out. How did Mandela defend himself? What changed from his first trial to his last? Could any justice be found in a system of blatant oppression? And what happens when the line between lawyer, defendant and prisoner becomes impossibly blurred?
The final film in our season at the Regent Street Cinema in London is coming up on Friday 19th December: a screening of David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method followed by a live recording of PPF with writer, psychoanalyst and feminist Susie Orbach. Do join us – tickets are still available https://bit.ly/3KHBp3g
Next time we start our season of Films of Ideas: Hitchcock’s Rope w/Nicci Gerrard and Sean French
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Por que tantas pessoas se encantam por líderes autoritários? O psicanalista e tradutor Paulo Schiller, autor do ensaio A Paixão Pela Mentira: a Família e as Tiranias (Todavia), discute neste episódio as origens do fascínio por tiranos. A partir do seu trabalho na psicanálise, Schiller diz que a ascensão do totalitarismo no século passado e seus ecos do mundo de hoje têm raízes nas relações familiares e nos silêncios a que nos acostumamos desde a infância. Na conversa, ele ainda fala sobre a experiência de traduzir o escritor húngaro László Krasznahorkai, vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 2025, que também explora o poder da mentira no seu romance Sátántangó (Companhia das Letras).
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This week, Devoney Looser on what we don't know about Jane Austen; and Peter Swaab introduces a previously unpublished story by the great Sylvia Townsend Warner.
'Jane Austen in 41 Objects', by Kathryn Sutherland
'Jane Austen’s Bookshelf: The women writers who shaped a legend', by Rebecca Romney
Jane Austen and George Eliot: The lady and the radical', by Edward Whitley
'Wild for Austen: A rebellious, subversive, and untamed Jane', by Devoney Looser
'The Pursuit and the End', by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Today’s episode is about a momentous trial and the incendiary book that followed: the trial was of Adolf Eichmann, convicted by an Israeli court in 1961 of orchestrating the Holocaust, and the book was Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), which questioned the grounds on which he was prosecuted. What did Arendt mean by ‘the banality of evil’? Why was she convinced that the case against Eichmann was badly misjudged? Was the trial really intended to serve as a history lesson? And if it was, what was it designed to teach?
Next time in Politics on Trial: Nelson Mandela vs Apartheid
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Como duas empresas australianas desconhecidas estão atropelando passos importantes em processos de licenciamento ambiental para lucrar bilhões com a mineração de terras raras no sul de Minas Gerais.
Caldas e Poços de Caldas, duas cidades do sul de Minas, se tornaram centrais numa das maiores disputas geopolíticas da atualidade. Isso se deve à alta concentração de minerais de terras raras ali. Especialistas chamam a reserva de “unicórnio da mineração”. Ela é tão grande que poderia suprir 20% da demanda mundial.
Os minerais de terras raras hoje estão entre os recursos mais valiosos do mundo por serem essenciais na produção de imãs, componentes básicos de dois itens de extrema importância no mundo atual: motores elétricos – vitais na tentativa global de diminuir o uso de combustíveis fósseis – e armas de guerra.
O Brasil tem a segunda maior reserva de terras raras do mundo, ficando trás só da China, que está numa guerra tarifária com os EUA. Nesse episódio nós fomos a Minas Gerais para acompanhar as movimentações de um grupo de moradores que resolveu se opor aos projetos de mineração nas cidades onde eles vivem.
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Mestre em física, ex-vereador e candidato a prefeito de Caldas pelo Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).
Arquiteta e urbanista. Pesquisadora do Núcleo de Pós Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG).
Chefe da Divisão de Minerais Críticos e Estratégicos da Agencia Nacional de Mineração (ANM).
Wagner Fanin
Eletricista e técnico ambiental. Ex-representante do Conselho Gestor da APA Pedra Branca (CONGEAPA) no Conselho Municipal de Desenvolvimento Ambiental (CODEMA) de Caldas.
Ademilson Kariri e Cariusa Kiriri
Lideranças do povo Kiriri em Caldas.
Professor e deputado federal de Minas Gerais pelo Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT-MG).
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Today we return to our series about epoch-making trials with the case of the book they tried and failed to ban. In 1960 Penguin Books was prosecuted at the Old Bailey under the new Obscene Publications Act (1959) over its plans to produce a cheap, unexpurgated edition of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. How did the prosecution try to persuade the jury that the book was a menace to public morals? Who were the expert witnesses called in its defence? What were the decisive arguments? And why was the judge’s summing-up such a mistake?
Out tomorrow on PPF+: David discusses the book at the heart of the case. Was Lady Chatterley’s Lover really all about sex? Or was it all about class? Or was it in fact about something else entirely? To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ now https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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Next time in Politics on Trial: Eichmann in Jerusalem
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Que caminhos os livros abrem? Neste episódio, a poeta Nina Rizzi conversa com a colunista do 451 MHz Bruna Beber sobre como a leitura entrou em sua vida de menina da zona rural de São Paulo e se transformou numa via para a emancipação. Rizzi também fala da sua nova coletânea de poemas Diáspora Não é Lar (Pallas), que mistura trajetória pessoal e história coletiva usando diferentes línguas, como o "pretuguês" e o inglês falado pela comunidade negra dos Estados Unidos. Também tradutora, professora, pesquisadora e autora de livros para as infâncias, ela conta como sua escrita nasceu na era dos blogs na internet, se tornou uma maneira de dialogar com o presente e, hoje, se inspira muito na tradução, uma de suas grandes paixões.
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This week, Camille Ralphs confides the highs and lows of travelling by Greyhound bus; and Alev Adil boards a train to join current night owls and bygone tourists.
'Greyhound', by Joanna Pocock
'Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train', by Monisha Rajesh
'To the Sea by Train: The Golden Age of Railway Travel', by Andrew Martin
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David talks to novelist Ian McEwan, who was our first ever guest on PPF, about how the future will view our present once the disasters we are brewing come to pass. How might humanity scrape through the rest of the century? Will future generations see us as intellectually vibrant or essentially trivial? If we turn out to be unknowable to those who follow us, does that mean we are unknowable to ourselves? A wide-ranging conversation about how past, present and future co-exist in time.
Ian McEwan’s latest novel is What We Can Know https://bit.ly/4ogYN5u
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Next time in Politics on Trial: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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Today’s episode is the second part of David’s conversation with historian Robert Saunders about the life and legacy of Margaret Thatcher. What is the meaning of Thatcherism in the twenty-first century? Why is she still such a polarising figure? Was she a distinctively British political phenomenon? Which politicians can plausibly claim to be channelling her example today?
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Next Time: Novelist Ian McEwan on imagining the present as a future past
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Há 90 anos, morria Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (1888-1935), um dos maiores poetas do século 20. Mas o português não chegou a ver o próprio sucesso: a maior parte de sua obra foi publicada postumamente, após a descoberta, em seu apartamento, de uma arca com mais de 30 mil manuscritos. Papéis assinados não só por Pessoa, mas por dezenas de heterônimos, entre eles Álvaro de Campos, Alberto Caeiro e Ricardo Reis.
Este episódio especial, em formato narrativo, investiga a vida e o legado de Pessoa — um quebra-cabeça que continua entretendo estudiosos, artistas e leitores. Com apresentação de Paulo Werneck, o episódio tem participação de Jerónimo Pizarro, Ida Alves, Eucanaã Ferraz, Leonardo Gandolfi, Eduardo Giannetti e Maria de Medeiros, que ainda lê trechos no podcast.
O episódio foi realizado com o apoio do Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua e da Lei Rouanet - Incentivo a Projetos Culturais.
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This week, Damian Flanagan explores the complex history of the Japanese masterpiece The Tale of Genji; and Miranda France on the eventful life and enduring work of Miguel de Cervantes.
'The Tale of Genji', by Murasaki Shikibu
'El Verano de Cervantes', by Antonio Muñoz Molina
'El Cautivo', directed by Alejandro Amenábar
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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