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Fin deSiecle: Six Excursions into Our Past

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3: The 1690s: Way of the World. As Wren's new cathedral rises over the City, London emerges as the greatest, wealthiest and most vibrant city in the world. Here are the new merchants and financiers jostling with the soldiers, priests, pimps, politicians and playwrights of London's taverns and coffee houses. A decade of war (Ireland, France) is also the era of Purcell, Dryden and Congreve - and of some of the most scurrilous and evocative popular songs to have survived the ravages of history.
Producer Daniel Snowman

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Daniel Snowman
Source: Radio Times

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