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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.
Sadly, this is the last episode of The Zeitgeist Tapes as Emma goes off to take up the full time role of Editor of LabourList and Steve vali...
This month after a somewhat hilarious mix up Emma and Steve read and discuss the Spectator - a Novel by Timothy Balding. This book has an od...
This month, slightly later than planned (or is timely) Emma and Steve discuss Conclave. The film has pretensions to high drama, but is it re...
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...
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...
This month instead of getting festive, Emma and Steve round off the year looking at the 1954 BBC adaptation of 1984. A dystopian tale of hop...
This month - in the wake of the US election and the defeat of Kamala Harris - Steve and Emma look at The Contender (2000). This is a film th...
In this episode Emma and Steve discuss 1988 film Running on Empty. Described by Steve as a 'Hallmark film for terrorists' the film follows t...
This month it’s another election special! Emma and Steve discuss the chapter about the election in Charles Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. Those w...
This month, Emma and Steve are joined by comedian, writer, director and comedy trainer Logan Murray to talk about Trevor Griffith's Comedian...
In this episode Emma and Steve discuss one of the most consequential dramatisations of recent years. Described as 'Kafka meets Ealing Comedy...
This month, to reflect on the death of Henry Kissinger, Emma and Steve look at 1964 film Fail Safe. Based on the same novel as Dr Strangelov...
This month Emma and Steve discuss the show that has had the political world more obsessed than with anything since The West Wing - Successio...
This month, Emma and Steve look at Brassed Off. It's a film about a colliery band, about music and community. It's also an explicitly anti-T...
This month, Steve and Emma discuss the 1964 classic My Fair Lady. What does George Bernard Shaw's play and the musical based on it have to s...
In a plot twist, this month Steve interviews Emma about her recent play Triggered.
As we head into a winter of discontent, Steve and Emma look at the Carry On film's somewhat misguided take on industrial relations. It seems...
This month, Emma and Steve discuss Kenneth Brannagh's turn as Boris Johnson in This England. This drama covers the opening weeks of the Covi...
This month (and a bit - sorry about the delay!) Steve and Emma are joined by Professor Marc Stears of the UCL Policy Lab. The writer of Sher...
This month Emma and Steve look at nuclear paranoia(?) thriller Edge of Darkness. This classic six-part drama largely holds up well - even if...
This month, prompted by events in Ukraine, Emma and Steve watched Katyń - the 2007 Polish film about the massacre in the Katyń Forest. Heart...
This month, Emma and Steve watched the 1963 classic The Manchurian Candidate - and loved it! The superb cast, tight script and conspiracy he...
This month, Steve and Emma watched popular Netflix comedy Don't Look Up. Starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Jennifer Lawrence, this obvious cli...
This month, Emma and Steve look at G.B.H. Alan Bleasdale's seven-part fictional account of a city council infiltrated by a Trotskyist group...
The Founder is based on the true story of how McDonalds became the behemoth it is today. It focuses not on the McDonald brothers - who inven...
This month, Steve and Emma look at 70s political assassination thriller The Parallax View. While it underperformed in terms of box office, i...
This month, Emma and Steve are looking at the David Hare play The Absence of War. Originally set in 1993 (after extraordinary access to the...
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 covere...
For international Women's Day, Emma and Steve discuss the feminist classic The Stepford Wives. A chillingly dark comedy horror about what me...
We're back! This month Emma and Steve look at the 1936 French film The Crime of Monsieur Lange. This morality tale from French auteur Jean R...
This month, Steve and Emma are joined by Dr Scott Rodgers, Senior Lecturer in media theory at the University of London, Birkbeck to discuss...
In this episode, Steve and Emma are joined by journalist Helen Lewis - author of Difficult Women: A History of feminism in 11 fights - to ta...
In this episode, Emma and Steve are joined by the President of the New York chapter of National Action Network - Derek Perkinson - to discus...
Today we are delighted to be joined by playwright James Graham. We interview him on the day that his play This House is due to go online (yo...
We have a first this month as Emma and Steve are joined by our first guest ever to be portrayed onscreen as a character. Jon Lansman talks a...
As we all find ourselves willing Prisoners reliant on a strong proactive state to keep us healthy, we thought it might be fun to explore an...
This month Emma and Steve discuss Parks and Recreation - possibly the least cyncial programme ever made about politics.
This month, Emma and Steve discuss Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister. Prompted by the recent death of the last remaining regular, Derek Fowlds...
This month, to keep us going through the election, Emma and Steve have been watching The Campaign. These politicians are not kissing babies...
In this election special, Steve and Emma are joined by occasional broadcaster and TV's Clangers expert Tim Worthington to talk about the one...
This month, Emma and Steve discuss Netflix original series The Politician. The first season of this show follows the campaign of consummate...
This month Emma Burnell and Steve Fielding discuss England, England by Julian Barnes. Written in the late 90s when New Labour was still new...
In this episode, journalist Emma Burnell and Professor Steve Fielding discuss BBC 3 Drama The Left Behind . Bleak and uncompromising, it tel...
This month, Emma and Steve are joined by Jonn Elledge of the New Statesman to talk about BBC Drama Years and Years. Written by Russell T Dav...
As a nod to the discussions of sovereignty and independence that have surrounded the EU elections this month Emma and Steve have watched Pas...
This month, Emma and Steve interviewed Marlon Soloman about his one-man show Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard's Tale. In it, Marlon unpacks both...
This month Emma and Steve are delighted to be joined by Steve Waters, playwrite and author of the recent highly successful play Limehouse. L...
This month, Steve and Emma are joined by Historian and Screenwriter Alex Von Tunzelmann to discuss Vice. Telling the story of Dick Cheyney t...
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 pl...
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...