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An opportunity for the audience to have their say on In Our Time. |
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ST PETERLOO MASSACRE
Bill Harvey, riots and battles
It seems to me that the miners strike and the pole tax riots were not so very different from the events you describe as impossible in our times. Could it be that one thing that kept the governments and their armed powers under control between the wars and in the decades immediately after the second was the knowledge that tere were a large number of weapons and trained men out there who would not be put upon?
Nick Landau, Peterloo Massacre
In 1968, I think, we did a play "The Massacre of Peterloo". I have looked this up on Google and I have found a play by J Hipkin doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/HipkinJ.htm which was published that year. My drama teacher must have known the playwright. I can't think what our parents made of this performance by 14-year-olds in this Barnet, N London grammar school of such protests songs as "We've gone on strike for 10% and 10% we'll get; we've gone on strike for 10% and ..." (words forgotten). We didn't go on to storm the staffroom!
Peterloo Massacre from Mary MacGregor
This is somewhat tangential to the subject.Thirty years and more ago I read Shelley's Masque of Anarchy with a class of 14/15 year olds in a mixed comprehesive school. The poem appealed because of its directness, its unequivocation. Afterwards one boy wrote "I met Murder onthe way/ Holding a blood-stained towel/ He had the face of Mr Enoch Powell." It was at the time of Enoch Powell's rivers of blood speech.Some held the opinion that it was better to have these views in the open than for them to fester beneath the surface. What I remember is the hurt and bewilderment of colleagues who in many cases had been asked to come to this country to teach in our schools and serve in our hospitals. And I think that lad had got a bull's eye with his poem.
Chris FitzHugh Peterloo Massacre
No mention of William Hone and his detailed published account of coroner's inquest. Nor of his three 1818 trials when juries, amused by his defence, acquitted him of blasphemy / libel. Important step towards press freedom. Details in Ben Wilson's interesting and entertaining book, The Laughter of Triumph, [2005 , Faber]
frederick pyne peterloo
thank you so much for your programme which I try to hear every week. on this day the Today prog. talked about what to get rid of including Home Truths (rubbish prog.!). So often you 'run out of time' Why can't we have In our Time run for one hour - please. or am I a 'minority' because I love history and philosophy which you so often cover?
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