Thomas Paine

The Mark Steel Lectures Season 2 Episode 4

Overview:
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 he became 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, this comedy lecture series shines a light on a little known (in Britain) hero on two continents.

Genre : Documentary, Comedy

Actors : Gerard Logan, Mark Steel

Release Date : 2004-11-26

Duration : 30 menit

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Ludwig van Beethoven
1. Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonardo da Vinci
2. Leonardo da Vinci
Mary Shelley
3. Mary Shelley
Thomas Paine
4. Thomas Paine
Sylvia Pankhurst
5. Sylvia Pankhurst
Albert Einstein
6. Albert Einstein


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