Past Present Future
Hosted by David · David Runciman
4.9from 318 ratings
- 347
- Episodes
- 178
- Transcribed
- 318
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Past Present Future
Past Present Future is a bi-weekly History of Ideas podcast with David Runciman, host and creator of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter. Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future. New episodes every Wednesday and Sunday.
- Publisher
- David Runciman
- Category
- history · news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Apr 2023
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
178 of 347 episodes have a transcript.
23 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
An Ageing World: Lifespan vs Healthspan
20 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Lives of the Philosophers: Iris Murdoch
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Lives of the Philosophers: Hannah Arendt
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An Ageing World: Lifespan vs Healthspan
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We expand this conversation to looking specifically or questioning specifically GLPs globally and looking at obesity globally. There is a global obesity epidemic that is unfolding in front of us, but it's incredibly unevenly distributed. And it does relate very significantly to poverty. But if you look at the top three countries in terms of obesity around the world, which is America, India and China, the health economics and the obesity economics in those three situations are wildly different from each other. And then if you introduce the Middle East, which has a really, really significant obesity crisis emerging today, The health economics of that are different and unique further because the majority of people with obesity in the Middle East have effective universal access to healthcare, but not through socialised medicine, but through access to extreme wealth. […]
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