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Melvyn Bragg's Radical Lives

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Melvyn Bragg's Radical Lives: Episode 2: Rights of Man: Thomas Paine

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Rights of Man: Thomas Paine

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Episode 2: Rights of Man: Thomas Paine

BBC Two - Melvyn Bragg's Radical Lives, Rights of Man: Thomas Paine

Melvyn Bragg looks at the life of the 18th-century radical political writer Thomas Paine.

Melvyn Bragg tells the story of the English radical political writer, Thomas Paine, author of three of the bestselling political essays of all time.

Melvyn Bragg tells the remarkable story of the 18th-century English radical political writer, Thomas Paine (1737-1809).

Paine wrote three of the bestselling political essays of all time: Common Sense, Rights of Man and The Age of Reason. His books changed the world and helped shape modern democracy. He lit the fuse for the American Revolution, was an active participant in the French Revolution and laid the foundation for political reform in Britain.

Melvyn Bragg travels from Norfolk to Philadelphia, New York and Paris as he follows in the footsteps of one of the great champions of democracy and human rights - Thomas Paine. Along the way, he shows how the freedoms we all now enjoy grew out of 18th-century Enlightenment thinking and were given popular voice in the works of Thomas Paine.

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Melvyn Bragg examines the lives and work of two radicals: John Ball and Thomas Paine.

Melvyn Bragg examines the lives, work and legacy of two men whose ideas have had tremendous consequences both in their own time and down the centuries: John Ball and Thomas Paine.

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