The Mark Steel Lectures Season 2 Episode 4 Thomas Paine 2004
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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.
- Released: 2004-11-26
- Runtime: 30 minutes
- Genre: Documentary, Comedy
- Stars: Gerard Logan, Mark Steel
- Director: Mark Steel, Jon Rolph
- Source: CWR-CRB
