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Melvyn Bragg follows his long historical exploration of the Routes of English with Voices of the Powerless, in which he explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at six critical moments across the last 1,000 years.
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Programme 1 - Industrial Revolution: Man and Manufacture
Melvyn Bragg is in urban Lancashire to explore the the warp and weft of the the Industrial Revolution - how the upheavals of the new mechanisation affected workers who found their traditional trades, like hand-loom weaving, superseded and marginalised by the growth of industrialisation and mechanisation.
He looks in particular at the way children were used in both the new trades and in the traditional world of agriculture.
Using the hundreds of first-hand accounts by ordinary and often impoverished workers, who found themselves frequently thrown out of work at the whim of the mill-owner or a shortage of raw materials, who trudged literally hundreds of miles in search of work, Melvyn Bragg hears, in the true voice of the powerless, the way the Industrial Revolution fashioned men's and women's lives.
Interviewees:
Dr John Stevenson
Fellow in History, Worcester College, University of Oxford
Dr Jane Humphries
All Souls College, Oxford
Dr Peter Kirby
Lecturer in Economic History, University of Manchester
Josselin Hill
Museum Manager, Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire (National Trust)
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Index.
Industrial Revolution: Man and Manufacture
Napoleonic Wars: Below Decks and Boney
Transportation: A Journey Beyond the Seas
World War One: The Wagoners at War
Miners in the Depression: Coal and Dole
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Index.
Castles and Cruelty
The Peasants' Revolt
The Reformation
The Plantation of Ireland in the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone.
The English Civil War and the Siege of Chester
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Melvyn Bragg presents In Our Time for 大象传媒 Radio 4, a series where he and his guests discuss the "Big Ideas" of cultural or scientific significance.
He also presented The Routes of English, his millennial series celebrating 1,000 years of the English language.
Melvyn Bragg was born in 1939 in Wigton, Cumbria - where many of his books are set. He won a scholarship to Oxford to read history, and in 1961 he gained a coveted traineeship with the 大象传媒.
He has presented a number of television series including: Read All about It, Two Thousand Years, and Who's Afraid of the Ten Commandments? and createdThe South Bank Show.
Melvyn presented Start the Week between 1988 and 1998. In his 1998 series On Giant's Shoulders he interviewed scientists about their eminent predecessors.
As well as presenting for Radio 4, he is Controller of Arts for London Weekend Television. He's written 17 novels, the latest of which, The Soldier's Return, won the WH Smith Literary Award.
Melvyn Bragg was made a Life Peer in 1998 and he took the title of Baron Bragg of Wigton in the County of Cumbria.
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