Podcasts about zeitgeist tapes

This month, Steve and Emma look at 70s political assassination thriller The Parallax View. While it underperformed in terms of box office, it has had a lasting effect and stands as a classic of the paranoid genre. Even if at times it does look like an episode of Dukes of Hazard. The brainwashing scene can be watched here. Tickets for Emma's play, No Cure for Love can be bought here. 

Emma and Steve finally discuss The West Wing. We use the double episode 20 Hours in America but take in as much of the show as can be covered in under an hour.  Links:  Tom Hanks Philadelphia acceptance speech:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBuDMEpUc8k Lin Manuel Miranda 'What's Next' rap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTD5-3fuZE Emma Burnell: The West Wing was wonderful. But you're still not Josh Lyman.  https://medium.com/@emmaburnell/the-west-wing-was-wonderful-but-youre-still-not-josh-lyman-feeed759ae6d

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. This is a collection of highlights from shows forty nine to fifty four, featuring Suzy Norman on Hugo The Hippo, Richard Littler on the episode of The Waltons with a Poltergeist, Gary Bainbridge on Radio City's Jack Your Body parody Deadly Boring, Tim Worthington on It's A Shame by Kris Kross, Phil Catterall on the On The Hour Christmas Special, Ben Baker on Now - The Christmas Album, Mitch Benn on Two-Stage Self-Assembly Ice Cream Cones, and Darrell Maclaine on Blockbusters Bubblegum. Along the way we'll be finding out what Richard Stilgoe rhymed with ‘poltergeist’, speculating on what local radio’s obsession with records with ‘Of The’ in the title was all about, recounting how the cast of The Sullivans got caught up in a South-East turf war, debating Steve Ditko’s role in the invention of Cornetto, going to see a time-travelling Candy Flip, investigating how the ‘Hand Jive’ era of Blockbusters was entirely illicitly funded by holes in grandparents’ pockets, revisiting Peter Skellern’s ‘Lurpak Years’, lamenting the terrible fate of the Breakaway theme music, and unveiling our new foolproof scheme for alluding to now-disgraced celebrities without actually naming them. Plus there's also a bit of extra chat with Richard about an unusual BBC showing of 2001: A Space Osyssey, and something you might not have heard before - Tim on The Zeitgeist Tapes talking to Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding about the long-forgotten Clangers Election Special Vote For Froglet! You can find the full editions of all of these shows - and plenty more besides - at http://timworthington.org/

Adam Boulton and guests assess another dramatic week in Westminster in which the Prime Minister was the subject of a Cabinet coup, offered her resignation, saw the government lose control of debates in the Commons, and witnessed MPs fail to agree on a way forward in the Brexit process. Joining Adam to work out where it is all heading are the editor of City AM Christian May, co-host of the Zeitgeist Tapes and House of Comments podcasts Emma Burnell, Sky's political editor Faisal Islam and the head of Sky Data Harry Carr.

This month Emma and Steve are delighted to be joined by Steve Waters, playwrite and author of the recent highly successful play Limehouse.  Limehouse is a fictionalised account of the day the 'Gang of Four' broke away from the Labour Party to form the SDP. Originally performed at the Donmar Warehouse, this play is still very timely, especially after the formation of The Independent Group of MPs.  Show notes:  More information on Steve Waters here: https://people.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/steven-waters Steve Fielding's Excellent documentary on party splits through the ages can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00035ng The play Emma couldn't recall the name of was An Honourable Man. You can find her review here:  https://playstosee.com/an-honourable-man/

This month, Steve and Emma are joined by Historian and Screenwriter Alex Von Tunzelmann to discuss Vice.  Telling the story of Dick Cheyney this film - from the makers of The Big Short - does it's "fucking best" according to the makers. Do we agree? And if we dont, does it matter?

The Zeitgeist Tapes on tour!  This month, Emma has dragged Steve all the way down to 'That London' to a play above a pub in Clapham. But a play about Clement Attlee so very much on brand.  Listen to us chat while our teeth chatter (all will be revealed).

Looks Unfamiliar is a podcast in which writer and occasional broadcaster Tim Worthington talks to a guest about some of the things that they remember that nobody else ever seems to. This is a collection of highlights from shows twenty five to thirty, featuring Martin Belam on the Laurel And Hardy cartoon, Jenny Morrill on The Just Seventeen Yearbook, Jack Kibble-White on Don't Give Up Your Day Job by Richard Digance, Tim Worthington on Secrets From The School Underground, Ben Baker on Looks Familiar, John Rain on Hello Mum and Phil Norman on The Country Life Christmas Box. Along the way we'll be getting annoyed at a fictional schoolboy’s opinions on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, critically evaluating Richard Murdoch’s cameo in The Wire, and trying our hardest to avoid talking about a cannibalistic emulsified cross between Last Tango In Paris and Straw Dogs. Plus there’s also something you may not have heard before - Tim talking to Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding on The Zeitgeist Tapes about Doctor Who and politics... You can find more editions of Looks Unfamiliar at http://timworthington.org/

New Year - new naming scheme!  This is a special episode where Emma and Steve have got together to discuss last night's James Graham TV play Brexit: The Uncivil War.  Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings, this covered the ins and outs of the in or out vote in 2016. Largely focussed on the successful leave campaign, we discuss the timeliness or otherwise of the drama, the casting and the baggage that brings and how you decide what to include and what to leave out.

Merry New Year! The final pod of 2018 brings the nature vs nurture masterpiece Trading Places, another festive special. Returning to be the Louis to my Billy Ray is Emma Burnell, star of the When Harry Met Sally episode. Emma is usually found over at the Zeitgeist Tapes podcast. Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the show. I'll be back in the New Year with new episodes and new guests!

Social media has changed the way we talk to each other, changed the way we read, the way we work, changed the way we consume news, music, sport, television and art. It has even changed the way we think.What does this mean for politics, and how parties, campaigns and activists communicate with voters – and how voters communicate with politicians?Conor Pope discusses that with Richard Angell and journalist, director of Political Human, and host of the Zeitgeist Tapes podcast, Emma Burnell.Further reading:*Chris Mullin talks to Progress magazine about communicating in power*We can't let the Labour party split into two lesser versions of itself – Emma Burnell*Corbynism, phase two – Conor Pope See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Not quite an 18-hour road trip, but you could listen to this 18 times... I was joined by Emma Burnell, writer and host of the Zeitgeist Tapes podcast, to discuss friendship, sex, Meg Ryan's hair and whether the tagline of this film should have been "You'll Do". Weirdly, we'd never met before this pod, so any nervous laughter after talk about fake orgasms was genuine.  

This month, Emma and Steve look at the BBC's ill-fated attempt to do a "This Life" on Westminster - Party Animals.  It's an enjoyable drama and in many ways an admirable one. Certainly its stated intention to show Westminster in a more positive light is something that has been missing from most depictions of British politics.  But coming out in 2007, just before the crash and the expenses scandal, it never really chimed with the national mood and wasn't commissioned for a second series.  If you enjoy The Zeitgeist Tapes, please rate and review us on iTunes. It helps others find us too.

It's another crossover episode. With a cast led by Daniel Craig and Christopher Eccleston, Our Friends in the North is one of the all-time great BBC dramas: a 31 year story of social housing policy, Labour infighting, police corruption and municipal decline.It's thus about as CityMetric-y a drama as you could ever hope to imagine – plus it's bloody good, not least because it begins with James Bond and Dr Who trying to start a rock n roll band in ‘60s Newcastle. I'd been toying with doing an episode on the subject when the writer Emma Burnell asked me to talk about it on The Zeitgeist Tapes, the podcast she'd just launched with Steve Fielding, a professor of politics at the University of Nottingham. So – this is that episode, originally released last autumn.This is also, incidentally, Skylines' 2nd birthday. We can almost walk. Thanks for listening to my nonsense.Skylines is the podcast from the New Statesman's cities site, CityMetric. It's hosted by Jonn Elledge. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to The Zeitgeist Tapes. Every month, Professor Steve Fielding and journalist Emma Burnell discuss the collison of politics and popular culture. This month we focus on A Very British Coup. Written in the 1980s, this drama about an elected left wing Labour leader still has much to tell us about today's politics.