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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 inspi...re 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.
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 inspi...re 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.
| Series: | The Mark Steel Lectures 2; Series 2 |
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| Episode | 5 |
| First transmission date: | 2004 |
| Published: | 2004 |
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| Duration: | 00:29:15 |
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| Producer: | Jon Rolph |
| Contributors: | Tony Benn; Martin Hyder; Phill Jupitus; Shovell; Mark Steel |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | : http://www.open2.net/marksteel/paine_lecture.html |
| Subject terms: | Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809 |
| Production number: | JOUA342D |
| Videofinder number: | 6897 |
| Available to public: | no |
