Hosted by Cory Hazlehurst / Mark Pack · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 9 episodes
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Join Cory Hazlehurst and Mark Pack as are digest some of the best - and some of the worst - depictions of politics in fiction: film, TV and even the occasional book. What political advice is smuggled into these stories and how do they impact on what people think about politicians today?
Cory Hazlehurst / Mark Pack hosts Political Fictions: political drama on screen and on the page, a tv show with 9 episodes published.
In a scheduling choice completely unconnected to any contemporary political events, Mark and Cory talk about the 2004 Danish film full of leadership plotting, King's Game. This is a proper conspiracy thriller, where even
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Cory and Mark talk about the political film that's probably most likely to be accidentally bought on Amazon: Pablo Larrain's No. It's about a referendum, and one with several parallels with the Brexit vote. Mark fact che
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Mark and Cory talk about Scandi Ballot Box dramas for the first time. They discuss the Borgen episode in which there are revelations about how Greenland is being used for CIA rendition programmes. They talk about whether
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Mark and Cory talk about All The President’s Men, which was released 50 years ago this month. Mark gets to do his rant about how this film is basically Raiders of the Lost Ark, we ponder whether it’s got the most realist
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Mark and Cory talk about political TV for the first time, and there's nowhere better to start than The Thick of It. After rewatching the first series, they talk about which fictional policy proposals ended up becoming re
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Mark and Cory talk about James Graham's play This House. The hit play, available to stream from the National Theatre, is about party whips trying to prop up a government without a secure House of Commons majority in the
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Cory and Mark watch Election, the 1999 film starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick. They talk about whether any of the characters in this film are actually likable, the importance of tying string to your pens,
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In the first episode of Political Fictions, Cory and Mark talk about the 2011 film The Iron Lady. They discuss how the film presents the human side of politicians, what it says about Margaret Thatcher and her legacy, and
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Political Fictions: political drama on screen and on the page is hosted by Cory Hazlehurst / Mark Pack. The show is categorised under tv (film) and has published 9 episodes.
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