Mark Steel Lectures Series Two
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- Episode
- Thomas Paine
- Broadcast Info
- 2004 (29 mins)
- Description
- Thomas Paine
Surely Britain’s greatest unknown international revolutionary best-selling author and hobbyist bridge builder, Norfolk born corset-maker’s son Thomas Paine wrote the Rights of Man and helped inspire the American war of Independence, thereafter becoming the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in a government that hated his country of birth. He then went to France and escaped the guillotine by accident, after having failed to sell a bridge he built over a field in London.
One of Mark Steel?s great unsung radical heroes, Mark Steel?s comedy lecture series shines a light on a little known (in Britain) hero on two continents.
Filmed on British and French soil, and adapted from the acclaimed Radio 4 series.
revolutionary author bridge builder Rights of Man American War of Independence Secretary for Foreign Affairs French Revolution - Genre
- History; Philosophy; Comedy
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