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ACFM

ACFM

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 Nadia Idle, Jeremy Gilbert and Keir Milburn bring you ACFM – a show about left-wing politics, culture, music and experiences of collective joy.Copyright © Thousand Hands Ltd 2023 Music Social Sciences
Episodes
  • ACFM Trip 57: Ecology

    ACFM Trip 57: Ecology
    Feb 22 2026
    Are humans distinct from nature? Are there natural limits to inequality? Can you have action without effort? Do bacteria have agency? Jem, Nadia and Keir find themselves dwarfed by the concept of ecology in this planetary-scale episode, which touches on cybernetics, systems thinking, ecofeminism and actor-network theory. Their ACFM guide to ecological thinking includes ideas […]
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    2 hrs and 9 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction

    ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction
    Dec 21 2025
    After a Trip episode about the meaning of mainstream, this time the gang go deeper into ‘Mainstream’ – that is, the new soft-left faction inside Labour. Yes, a festive episode about the inner workings of a political party! Don’t say we don’t spoil you. Jem, Nadia and Keir explain the emergence of Mainstream’s ‘radical realists’ […]
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • ACFM Trip 56: The Mainstream

    ACFM Trip 56: The Mainstream
    Dec 7 2025
    Jem, Nadia and Keir debate the meaning of ‘mainstream’ – something none of them could ever possibly be, of course. Is ‘woke’ the new mainstream? Can there be a mainstream if we don’t all have access to the same culture? Is Tommy Robinson shifting the Overton Window? Why is nonconformity associated with coolness? And who engineers […]
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    1 hr and 54 mins
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