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#ACFM

Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn bring you #ACFM – a show examining the links between left-wing politics, culture, music and experiences of collective joy.

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ACFM Trip 35: The Internet

ACFM Trip 35: The Internet

In this bumper Trip, the gang survey the totalising modern phenomenon that is The Internet. Nadia, Keir and Jem dredge u... Read more

6 Aug 2023

1hr 53mins

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ACFM Microdose: Californian Capitalism w/ Malcolm Harris

ACFM Microdose: Californian Capitalism w/ Malcolm Harris

Ahead of an ACFM Trip about the internet, Keir Milburn is joined by Malcolm Harris to talk about the unique political hi... Read more

2 Aug 2023

55mins

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ACFM Trip 34: The Outdoors

ACFM Trip 34: The Outdoors

As the longest day arrives in the northern hemisphere, Jeremy, Nadia and Keir ponder our obsession with the great outdoo... Read more

25 Jun 2023

1hr 22mins

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ACFM Microdose: Sitcoms At Work

ACFM Microdose: Sitcoms At Work

After last week’s look at the politics of comedy, this time the gang turn to the gogglebox for a Microdose about sitcoms... Read more

18 May 2023

1hr 28mins

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ACFM Trip 33: Comedy

ACFM Trip 33: Comedy

What’s the point of comedy? Stand-ups were at the forefront of the cultural backlash against Thatcherism, but today’s me... Read more

14 May 2023

1hr 37mins

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ACFM Trip 32: Myth

ACFM Trip 32: Myth

From the epic of Gilgamesh to the archetypes of Carl Jung, the mysterious power of myth is at hand. Is Genesis as mythic... Read more

12 Mar 2023

1hr 31mins

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ACFM Microdose: Strikes On Screen

ACFM Microdose: Strikes On Screen

The ACFM groupmind went into overdrive on last week’s Trip, a wide-ranging conversation about the long and violent histo... Read more

19 Feb 2023

1hr 36mins

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ACFM Trip 31: Strikes

ACFM Trip 31: Strikes

In the midst of Britain’s biggest wave of industrial action in years, the gang turn their attention to the long and bloo... Read more

5 Feb 2023

2hr 6mins

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ACFM Microdose: A Ghost Story For Christmas

ACFM Microdose: A Ghost Story For Christmas

Ghosts have already got their own festival: Halloween. So why do they spook us at Christmas too? Do they represent force... Read more

22 Dec 2022

1hr 13mins

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ACFM Trip 30: Gifts

ACFM Trip 30: Gifts

Adam Smith claimed that “the propensity to truck, barter and exchange… is common to all men”, but anthropologists know t... Read more

18 Dec 2022

1hr 34mins

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