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The History of Ideas Podcast
with David Runciman

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Fifteen Fictions for Summer re-release: Phineas Redux

The sixth Great Political Fiction in our summer re-release is Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Redux (1874), his lightly and luridly fictionalised account of parliamentary polarisation in the age of Gladstone and Disraeli. A tale of political and personal melodrama, it explores what happens when political parties steal each other’s clothes and politicians find themselves hung out to dry by their colleagues. A story of integrity and hypocrisy and how hard it is to tell them apart.


Tomorrow: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde


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23 August 2024

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