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9/10. Michael Collins. Michael Collins has been called the inventor of modern terrorism, celebrated as the father of the Irish state and condemned as the traitor who betrayed a revolution. He was charming and ruthless, romantic and realistic, loved and hated ... and dead at 31. Humphrey Carpenter 's guest Lord Puttnam - who as film producer David Puttnam helped to bring Collins's story to the big screen in 1996 - is joined by Irish historian
Professor Roy Foster for a discussion about the Big Fella's Short but amazing life. Producer Peter Everett

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Michael Collins.
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Michael Collins
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Humphrey Carpenter
Producer:
David Puttnam
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Professor Roy Foster
Producer:
Peter Everett
Source: Radio Times

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