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Oliver Cromwell

30 min

Charlie Chaplin

30 min

Rene Descartes

30 min

Geoffrey Chaucer

30 min

Harriet Tubman

30 min

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Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

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The Mark Steel Lectures

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Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Season 3 · Episode 6 · Mar 30, 2006

Walk down any high street in this country and chances are at some point you’ll see somebody wearing a Che Guevara t shirt. Most of whom have absolutely no idea who he was and what he stood for. Still, it’s a nice image, and he was handsome… Che Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928; initially he trained to be a doctor but became politically conscious and abandoned his vocation in order to travel across South America on the back of a motorbike. It was in Mexico in 1955 that Che met a young Fidel Castro who with his brother Raul had been exiled from his Cuban homeland and was preparing for an uprising there by training a crack squad of rebels in the Mexican countryside. This was Che’s calling. It’s what he’d been waiting his whole life for. It was his destiny. In this latest edition of his BAFTA nominated series of lectures, writer and broadcaster Mark Steel travels to South America and turns his attentions to the life and revolutionary times of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara.

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The Mark Steel Lectures

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200330m7.5

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Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

Season 3 · Episode 6 · Mar 30, 2006

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