Podcast: Past Present Future (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)
Episode: Live Film Special: Good Night, and Good Luck w/Helen Lewis
Pub date: 2026-05-24

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Today’s episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Regent Street Cinema in London: David talks to the writer and broadcaster Helen Lewis about George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck (2005). A film about the golden age of journalism and the grim years of McCarthyism, it tells the story of Ed Morrow’s attempt to take down scaremongering and conspiracy theories. Where is McCarthyism at work today? What’s happened to cancel culture? How was early TV like podcasting? And is George Clooney a hero for our times?

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