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The Zeitgeist Tapes

The Zeitgeist Tapes

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Where politics and pop culture collide. Every month journalist Emma Burnell and Professor Steve Fielding discuss the way politics is interpreted through popular culture.

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  • Conclave

    Conclave
    May 26 2025
    This month, slightly later than planned (or is timely) Emma and Steve discuss Conclave.

    The film has pretensions to high drama, but is it really just an Agatha Christie style novel set in the Catholic Church? Not so much a 'whodunnit' as a They all done something innit!.
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    33 minutos
  • Capra Double Bill: Mr Smith Goes to Washington and Meet John Doe

    Capra Double Bill: Mr Smith Goes to Washington and Meet John Doe
    Apr 19 2025
    In a Zeitgeist Tapes first, we have a double bill for your delectation.

    Given all that is happening in the USA and the wider world, we delve back to the late 1930s and early 1940s to see how one of the most popular directors of the time dealt with populism - positive and negative. We discuss both Mr Smith Goes to Washington and Meet John Doe - both by director Frank Capra.

    Political corruption abounds; the little guy is always the hero and the stooge. But Capra - an immigrant and Republican - did not want to break the American system - he wanted to show that it could be great again. Perhaps a lesson for those who oppose Trump now.

    Watch Meet John Doe on Youtube
    Find Steve on BlueSky
    Find Emma on BlueSky.
    Buy tickets for Emma's play.
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    46 minutos
  • Brian and Maggie

    Brian and Maggie
    Feb 19 2025
    This month Steve and Emma discuss Brian and Maggie - the 2 part TV drama about the interview that - according to the drama at least - led to the fall of Margaret Thatcher.

    We ask if long-form interviews really are dead? If TV interviews really were as good as the nostalgia would have it and if arch-Thatcerite Brian Walden really did bring down his friend?
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    33 minutos
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