Democracy Week: Recommended Resources

‍Books

• The point is to change the world
• we want freedom (Black Panthers)
• Wages for housework
• a people’s history of Europe
• Decolonising the university
• university and social justice struggles across the world
• V for Vendetta
• 1984
• why we always get the wrong politicians
• hood feminism
• chasing the scream
• the transgender issue

TV Series & Documentaries

• Make Me Prime Minister (Channel 4 / All 4)
• The West Wing
• Yes Minister / Yes Prime Minister
• Veep
• Borgen
• The Thick of It
• Knick the House Down

Films

• Erin Brockovich
• Made in Dagenham
• Selma
• Suffragette
• The Trial of the Chicago 7
• Pride
• Hunger
• Nae Paseran
• Hamilton
• V for Vendetta
• 1984
• The Iron Lady
• Don’t Look Up
• I, Daniel Blake

Podcasts

• The Yikes Podcast
• Today in Focus
• Newscast
• Americast
• the Westminster Insider
• Inside Briefing from the Institute for Government  
• Tech Tonic
• The Week Unwrapped