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The History of Ideas Podcast
with David Runciman

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The Great Political Fictions: Phineas Redux

This week's great political novel 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.


Next time: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.


Coming next month on PPF: The Ideas Behind UK General Elections


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30 May 2024

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