3 Season
18 Episode
The Mark Steel Lectures - Season 2 Episode 4 Thomas Paine (2006)
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.
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- Genre : Documentary, Comedy
- Studio : BBC Four
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- Cast : Gerard Logan, Mark Steel
