by Stewart Conn
with music composed and arranged by Adrian Secchi
Arthur Thistlewood, executed at Newgate in 1820 for murder and high treason, was one of those historical rarities: an English Revolutionary. 'We will have to take to arms.... we must occupy the Tower and barricade the bridges. Blow open the prison doors and see these lofty Bastilles reduced to ashes. We must take what is Ours...'
BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Sunday 2.30 pm)