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Start the Week: Popular Protest and Patriotism

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05/12/2016

Popular Protest and Patriotism

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Popular Protest and Patriotism

Kirsty Wark with John Rees, Josie Rourke, Rachel Reeves and James Frayne.

Kirsty Wark discusses the history of protest with John Rees, Josie Rourke, Rachel Reeves and James Frayne.

On Start the Week Kirsty Wark explores the history of protest. 

The Levellers were revolutionaries who brought 17th century England to the edge of radical republicanism. In his biography, John Rees argues the Levellers are central figures in the country's history of democracy. 

The original soldier-turned-saint and nationalist protester Joan of Arc takes centre stage in Josie Rourke's revival of Bernard Shaw's play, Saint Joan. 

The Labour MP, Rachel Reeves, finds inspiration in her fellow parliamentarian Alice Bacon, who she says helped usher in a new era of social justice post-war, while the political commentator James Frayne looks at the era post-Brexit and considers whether provincial England is now in revolt.

Producer: Katy Hickman

Photo: Alice Bacon elected as the first female MP for Leeds, in 1945 Credit: The Yorkshire Post.

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