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by Pensioner » Wed Nov 17, 2010 7:23 pm
Deep Sea Isopod wrote:I watch it on iPlayer last night. A period Drama.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... Episode_1/
Pioneering eighteenth century barrister William Garrow returns to the Old Bailey to champion the rights of prisoners against the power of the State.
When 133 African prisoners are thrown overboard from a slave ship in suspicious circumstances, Garrow challenges the brutal trade that regards slaves as cargo. It is a case that amounts to a declaration of war.
Thumbs up from me. Carn't wait for the rest of the series.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Garrow
I have watched them all, I agree good drama.
“I wish no harm to any human being, but I, as one man, am going to exercise my freedom of speech. No human being on the face of the earth, no government is going to take from me my right to speak, my right to protest against wrong, my right to do everything that is for the benefit of mankind. I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.”
John Maclean (Scottish socialist) speech from the Dock 1918.
