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Voices of the Powerless

Melvyn Bragg explores the lives of the ordinary working men and women of Britain at six critical moments across the last 1,000 years.

Radio 4,3 episodes

Episodes

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Boils and Buboes
Melvyn Bragg examines how an alderman saved the plague ravaged town of Salisbury in 1627.
30 mins29 Aug 2002
The Plantation of Ireland in The Counties of Armagh and Tyrone
Melvyn Bragg investigates the lot of native Irish workers at the end of Elizabethan era.
28 mins15 Aug 2002
The Reformation
Melvyn Bragg investigates the effect of the English Reformation on ordinary people.
28 mins08 Aug 2002