David talks to historian Gary Gerstle about the last time the Republican party got caught up in a tariffs disaster and how it changed American politics. The Smoot-Hawley Act of 1930 brought tariffs back and helped bring down both the Republican Party and the global economy. Why didn’t Hoover stop it? What did the fiasco reveal about the limits of presidential power back then? And what does it suggest about the limits of presidential power today?
Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: Central Banks vs the People (and Trump!)
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This week, Toby Lichtig travels to Oslo to interview Nobel laureate Jon Fosse; meanwhile, Natasha Lehrer heads to Zurich for a compelling new play by Deborah Levy.
Jon Fosse is published in English by Fitzcarraldo Editions
'50 Minutes', by Deborah Levy, Neumarkt Theatre, Zurich, until May 7
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Today we explore the explosive fight over tariffs that took place in Britain in the first decade of the twentieth century. David talks to historian Robert Saunders about how Joseph Chamberlain made tariff reform a great popular cause and how it nearly destroyed his party. Are there parallels with Trump’s tariff wars today? Yes! Are there lessons for Trump’s opponents too? Yes!
Out now on PPF+: Lenin and Trotsky part 2, taking the story on from 1917 to explore civil war, the rise of Stalin and the re-invention of Trotskyism. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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Este episódio fala sobre a Jurema, uma planta alucinógena que originou uma religião indígena e que pode revolucionar o tratamento da depressão.
Na seiva da Jurema corre uma substância chamada N, N-dimetiltriptamina – a DMT, que acredita-se ser uma das responsáveis pelos nossos sonhos. Ela também está presente na ayahuasca, que, quando ingerida, pode provocar alucinações.
A Jurema, porém, vai muito além do seu potencial alucinógeno e se diferencia de outras plantas parecidas. Ela é a protagonista de uma religião ancestral, que se misturou a cultos de matriz africana e passou anos escondida.
Neste episódio de podcast, falamos sobre como uma substância psicodélica, que tem o potencial de revolucionar o tratamento de depressão, deu origem a um conjunto de crenças e rituais que se constituem numa das religiões mais brasileiras que existem.
Mergulhe mais fundo
A Ciência Encantada de Jurema (link para compra)
Entrevistados do episódio
Jornalista de ciência e ambiente, colunista da Folha de S. Paulo, autor de “Psiconautas – Viagens com a Ciência Psicodélica Brasileira”.
Doutor em antropologia e professor da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte.
Professor do Instituto do Cérebro da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Sua atuação é focada nos estudos de alteração de consciência provocados pela ayahuasca e o potencial da substância como antidepressivo.
Antropólogo e professor da Universidade Federal de Campina Grande (UFCG). Autor do livro “Jurema”.
Ficha técnica
Produção e edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama
Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari
Direção, roteiro e sonorização: Tomás Chiaverini
Cânticos entoados por: Joanah Flor e Thulny Fulni-ô
We start a new mini-series on the history of ideas of globalisation by exploring how arguments from 150 years ago foreshadow what’s happening with Trump today. David talks to economic historian Marc Palen about the nineteenth-century fight between economic nationalists and the champions of an open economy. Was free trade for everyone or just for white people? Was it possible to be an imperialist and a globalist? What did the socialists want? And who thought that Canada should be annexed by the United States?
Out now on PPF+: Lenin and Trotsky part 2, taking the story on from 1917 to explore civil war, the rise of Stalin and the re-invention of Trotskyism. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Next time on Ideas of Globalisation: The Tariff Wars of the 1900s.
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Boêmio, transgressor, erudito, poeta boca suja e prosador exuberante: o homenageado da Flip 2025, Paulo Leminski (1944–1989), é o tema deste episódio com a curadora do festival literário. Ana Lima Cecilio conversa com o apresentador, Paulo Werneck, e a nova colunista do podcast, Bruna Beber, sobre a vida e a obra do autor curitibano e suas conexões com a cena cultural contemporânea.
O episódio foi realizado com apoio da Lei Rouanet – Incentivo a Projetos Culturais.
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This week, David Gallagher remembers Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa; and Laurent Binet whisks us to 16th-century Florence to explore the world of his novel Perspectives.
'Perspectives', by Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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To conclude this part of our revolutionary ideas series, we explore the overlapping lives and thinking of two emblematic twentieth-century revolutionaries: Lenin and Trotsky. David talks to historian of Russia Edward Acton about what inspired them, what connected them and what divided them. How were they radicalised? How did they interpret the failure of the 1905 revolution? How did they make the 1917 revolution happen?
Available from Saturday on PPF+: Lenin and Trotsky part 2, taking the story on from 1917 to explore civil war, the rise of Stalin and the re-invention of Trotskyism. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up now to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
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Next time the start of a new series: The History of Globalisation
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Today’s episode is the second of our two recent live recordings of PPF, this one in front of an audience at the Bath Curious Minds Festival. David talks to historian Robert Saunders about the life of Winston Churchill and all its twists and turns of fortune: from disgrace in WWI, economic disaster in the 1920s, wilderness in the 1930s, through to redemption in 1945 and rejection by the voters in the same year. How to make sense of it all? Is there a thread that connects the ups and downs? Has there ever – anywhere – been another political life like it?
Out now on PPF+: David discusses the influence of Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto (1909) – from cars to cod liver oil, from fascism to techno-optimism, from the madness of pre-WWI Europe to the craziness of Silicon Valley today. To get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening sign up to PPF+ https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Next time: The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Lenin and Trotsky
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This week, Peter Holland treads the boards in Elizabethan London in search of Shakespeare before the Globe; and Muriel Zagha on a captivating tale of cheese-making in the Jura.
'The dream factory: London’s first playhouse and the making of William Shakespeare', by Daniel Swift
'Holy Cow', a film by Louise Courvoisier
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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Our third Parisian revolution is another explosive night in the theatre, this time in the world of dance. David talks to Dominic Dromgoole about Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, which provoked absolute outrage when it premiered in 1913. Is that what its impresario Diaghilev wanted? How did Nijinsky cope? Did the response foreshadow the trauma to come in 1914? And how did the set designer Roerich end up playing a part in American presidential history?
Dominic Dromgoole’s Astonish Me! First Nights that Changed the World is available wherever you get your books https://profilebooks.com/work/astonish-me/
Out this weekend: a new bonus episode on PPF+ exploring the far-reaching impact of Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto (1909), from pre-WWI Europe to Silicon Valley. Sign up now to get this and all our bonus episodes plus ad-free listening https://www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
Next time: PPF Live: Churchill – The Politician With Nine Lives
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Today’s Parisian revolution is a theatrical performance that produced a riot. David talks to theatre director Dominic Dromgoole about Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (1896), which only ran for a couple of nights but left an indelible mark on the culture of the age and has resonated ever since. Why did a play effectively written by children provoke such a storm among the adults? What made it it blow the mind of W. B. Yeats who was in the audience? How can something so bad be so liberating?
Next time: Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
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Este episódio mergulha no universo das apostas esportivas e tenta entender o fenômeno das bets no Brasil.
As bets foram eleitas pela opinião pública como as grandes vilãs do Brasil. De acordo com o Banco Central, beneficiários do Bolsa Família depositaram R$3 bilhões em casas de apostas somente em agosto de 2024. Foram 5 milhões de pessoas apostando, 10% das mais de 50 milhões beneficiadas pelo programa.
Os números são alarmantes, e, ao menos desde 2018, as casas de aposta vêm ganhando muito dinheiro dentro do nosso país. Apesar disso, a discussão sobre o mercado de apostas no Congresso e na sociedade civil pouco avançou desde 2018, quando as apostas foram legalizadas em território nacional.
Se 80% dos apostadores ficam no prejuízo, por que tantos seguem apostando? Como o Brasil, de acordo com pesquisa da H2 Gambling Capital, se tornou o sétimo maior mercado de apostas no planeta?
Neste episódio de podcast, fazemos um mergulho no universo das apostas esportivas, e buscamos entender o porquê de os humanos se interessarem por apostas.
Mergulhe mais fundo
Em busca de mais excitação: reflexões acerca das apostas esportivas (link para o artigo)
Entrevistados do episódio
Doutorando em educação física pela Universidade de Brasília (UNB). Autor do artigo “Em busca de mais excitação: reflexões acerca das apostas esportivas”.
Apostador esportivo profissional. Criador do “Guia das Apostas”.
Ficha técnica
Produção e edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama
Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.
Direção, roteiro e sonorização: Tomás Chiaverini
Today’s episode is the first of three this week with the theatre director and writer Dominic Dromgoole, exploring revolutionary events in the world of art and theatre, starting with the opening of the Salon des Refusés in Paris in May 1863. How did the Emperor Napoleon end up sponsoring such a counter-cultural event? Why did it provoke such public outrage and astonishment? And in what ways did Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe revolutionise what was possible in the creation and consumption of modern art?
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Next time: Ubu Roi w/Dominic Dromgoole
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