{"podcast":{"title":"Past Present Future","slug":"past-present-future-6300636","podcast_index_feed_id":6300636,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ARML2708405200","website_url":"https://www.ppfideas.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/2f107d8e-a203-11ef-b85e-f7325ecdf2a3/image/dc212737e69c26e9c1ae344baf5c42e6.jpeg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"D&HR Media Ltd","episode_count":321,"summary":"Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter. Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-08T14:17:07.389567+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/past-present-future-6300636"},"episode":{"title":"The Great Political Fictions: The Golden Notebook Part 2 w/Catherine Taylor","slug":"the-great-political-fictions-the-golden-notebook-part-2-w-catherine-taylor","published_at":"2026-06-03T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/past-present-future-6300636/the-great-political-fictions-the-golden-notebook-part-2-w-catherine-taylor","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/past-present-future-6300636","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR5851177412.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR5851177412.mp3","summary":"In the second of two episodes about Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, David talks to critic and memoirist Catherine Taylor about the novel’s place in the history of feminism. Is its idea of ‘free women’ meant to be ironic? Why are the things that shocked its original readers not the things that shock its readers today? What makes Lessing so much more angry about male hypocrisy than she is about male brutality? And what else by Lessing should we all read? Read more by Catherine on Doris Lessing in this recent essay published in Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/what-we-can-learn-from-doris-lessings-experiments-in-living Join us on Friday 19th June at the Regent Street Cinema in London for the final film in our current season: a screening of Never Let Me Go followed by a live podcast recording with geneticist and science writer Adam Rutherford. Tickets available now https://bit.ly/4x641XC You can find out everything you need to know about this podcast – who we are, what we do, plus merch, events and full lists of all episodes including PPF+ bonus episodes on our website https://www.ppfideas.com Next Time in Great Political Fictions: The Dispossessed Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"In the second of two episodes about Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, David talks to critic and memoirist Catherine Taylor about the novel’s place in t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3662,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/past-present-future-6300636/episodes/the-great-political-fictions-the-golden-notebook-part-2-w-catherine-taylor/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/past-present-future-6300636/the-great-political-fictions-the-golden-notebook-part-2-w-catherine-taylor.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}