Unusually this week In Our Time leaves the studio to mark the bicentenary of the Slave Trade Abolition Act. Melvyn Bragg will be exploring the life and legacy of William Wilberforce, visiting his memorial statue in Westminster Abbey and his birthplace in Hull and being shown the original copy of the Slave Trade Abolition Act in the House of Lords.
Amongst others, he will be talking to Wilberforce's biographer, the Rt Hon William Hague MP, historian Zoe Laidlaw from Royal Holloway, University of London, historian Anne Stott of Birkbeck College, London, Vanessa Salter, Keeper of Social History at the Wilberforce House Museum, Madge Dresser from the University of the West of England, Alison Lewis, guide on the William Wilberforce tour and the Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.
