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A Traitor's Grave

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People could not believe a man could be such a bloody traitor (SIR WILLIAM LAWTHER) According to socialist mythology James Ramsay MacDonald , first Labour Prime Minister of Britain, was a traitor because he formed a National Government with the Conservatives and Liberals in 1931. Does MacDonald deserve this judgment? His biographer David Marquand mp does not believe so. In tonight's programme with the voices and views of the MacDonald family, of Mac Donald 's contemporaries and with extracts from previously unseen papers, he presents a portrait of this complex and controversial man. Producer
GWYNETH HENDERSON
(David Marquand 's biography is reviewed in The Lucifer of the Left, Radio 3, 7.55 , pm Thursday)
Preview: page 15

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James Ramsay MacDonald
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David Marquand
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Mac Donald
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Gwyneth Henderson
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David Marquand
Source: Radio Times

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