Third of four monologues based on eyewitness accounts of the ordinary men and women who made the French Revolution. The Preacher by PETER BARNES with Alan Rickman as Jacques Roux.
'Mad' Jacques Roux was a radical priest who officiated at the execution of Louis XVI and organised food riots in the harsh winter of 1793. Popular with the poor, he became too revolutionary for the Revolution's leaders. At the ruined church of St Nicholas in Paris, Roux preaches his last sermon.
('The Amazon' tomorrow at 10. 10pm)
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