Was the English Revolution the first great revolution of modern history? How revolutionary was it?
Professor Lawrence Stone of Princeton University and Christopher Hill, Master of Balliol. discuss this question in the light of several new books, including their own, on the 17th-century aristocracy and the Radicals in the Civil War. They also discuss the value of different methods - statistical, anthropological and psychoanalytical - to our understanding of historical movements. Chairman Peter Burke Producer ROBERT FOX