Something different for our last episode on the Great Political Fictions as this time David talks to the person who wrote it: Tim Rice, the lyricist of the epic musical about the life of Eva Peron, Evita (co-written with Andrew Lloyd-Webber). Where did the idea for such an unlikely subject come from? Why has it struck a chord with politicians from Thatcher to Trump? What does it say about the relationship between celebrity, populism and power?
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Next time: Adam Rutherford on counterfactual science to kick off our new series on ‘What Ifs…’
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This week, Philip Ball assesses the anxiety about AI - and provides some reassurance; and Jane Robinson on Emily Davies, the woman who founded Girton College, Cambridge.
'Moral AI: And how we get there', by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Vincent Conitzer
'The AI Mirror: How to reclaim our humanity in an age of machine thinking', by Shannon Vallor
'Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to our humanity in an age of social robots', by Eve Herold
'The Atomic Human: Understanding ourselves in the Age of AI', by Neil D. Lawrence
'Emily Davies and the Mid-Victorian Women's Movement', by John Hendry
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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David talks to the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis about Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), one of the most widely read and best-loved novels of the twentieth century, and in the twenty-first century increasingly one of the most controversial. Is the book an attack on or an apology for Southern racism? How does its view of race relate to the picture it paints of class and caste in 1930s Alabama? And what on earth are we to make of the recently published prequel/sequel Go Set A Watchman? Plus we discuss Demon Copperhead, JD Vance, and more.
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Next time: Tim Rice talks about Evita
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The writer and political philosopher Lea Ypi talks about the impact on her of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck (1884), which she first read when she was eight – thinking it was a children’s book (it isn’t!) – and has been returning to ever since. A play about family and betrayal, idealism and disappointment, temptation and self-destruction, is it also a parable about the illusions of politics? And how might it shake a person’s faith?
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Next time: Helen Lewis on To Kill A Mockingbird
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Este episódio especial reúne duas entrevistas com o historiador e ensaísta Rui Tavares, que acaba de lançar dois livros no Brasil: o monumental Agora, Agora e Mais Agora e o breve Esquerda e Direita: Guia Histórico para o Século XXI. Na primeira, conduzida pela podcaster e escritora Sofia Nestrovski, do Vinte Mil Léguas, trata de temas como a filosofia árabe, as tramas da escrita e o otimismo e o pessimismo. Na segunda, com o cientista político Sergio Fausto e a escritora Camila Rocha, fala sobre o conceito histórico de esquerda e direita, seus extremismos e comenta o atual estado político do Brasil e do mundo. O episódio é realizado com o apoio da Lei de Incentivo à Cultura Compre os livros de Rui Tavares: http://bit.ly/3LCDOsS
This week, Isaac Nowell takes us out in all weathers, Sean O'Brien reads a new poem, and Norma Clarke on a fascinating story of exile and doomed love.
'In All Weathers: A Journey Through Rain, Fog, Wind, Ice and
Everything in Between', by Matt Gaw
'Fingerpost', by Sean O'Brien
'In Pursuit of Love: The Search for Victor Hugo's Daughter', by Mark Bostridge
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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David talks to Mark Ford and Seamus Perry, hosts of the LRB’s Close Readings poetry podcast, about what makes a great political poem. Can great poetry be ideological? How much does context matter? And is it possible to tell political truths in verse? From Yeats’s ‘Easter 1916’ to Owen’s ‘Strange Meeting’ to Auden’s ‘Spain 1937’: a conversation about political conviction and poetic ambiguity.
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Next time: Lea Ypi on Ibsen’s The Wild Duck
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This week we check back in with Gary Gerstle to discuss what’s been happening in American politics after a tumultuous week. What does it say about Trump’s electoral strategy that he picked J.D. Vance as his running mate? How would the Republican party have coped if the assassin’s bullet hadn’t missed? Who might replace Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket and how? Plus, what fate lies in store for Bidenomics if Trump plasters his name all over it?
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And sign up to PPF+ to get all our bonus episodes along with ad-free listening: available now for PPF+ subscribers, Robert Saunders on his favourite political novel, George Eliot’s Felix Holt
Next time: The Great Political Poems
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