• PPF Live Special: Churchill – The Politician With Nine Lives w/Robert Saunders

  • Apr 20 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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PPF Live Special: Churchill – The Politician With Nine Lives w/Robert Saunders

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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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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