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6 episodes in this season

Ludwig van Beethoven

30 min

Leonardo da Vinci

30 min

Mary Shelley

30 min

Thomas Paine

30 min

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Sylvia Pankhurst

30 min

Albert Einstein

30 min

The Mark Steel Lectures

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200330m7.5

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Sylvia Pankhurst

Season 2 · Episode 5 · Dec 3, 2004

Tracing her life from schooldays in radical Manchester to retirement in rural Essex, when Haile Selassie occasionally came to call, Sylvia Pankhurst the revolutionary and Rastafarian sympathiser is brought to life as only Mark Steel can. From a bed-in with Keir Hardie to Kill Bill style ju-jitsu, here’s everything you didn’t know about this pioneer of democracy. Recalling a time when Manchester was the most radical city in Britain, this latest instalment in Mark Steel’s comedy lecture series resonates with today’s human rights campaigners and anti-war radicals, as well as containing a short section revealing the best type of stone to smash windows with.

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The Mark Steel Lectures

TV Series

200330m7.5

DocumentaryComedy

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Sylvia Pankhurst

Season 2 · Episode 5 · Dec 3, 2004

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