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Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
60. GEOFF, GEOFF, GEOFF...OUT OUT OUT: the power of protest
Season 1, Ep. 60
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Hello! It’s 50 years since 1968, next year it will be 200 since the Peterloo massacre, so we are discussing the power of political protest, when they work and what it all means for today. French journalist Agnes Poirier chronicles ‘68 and after for us and Guardian columnist John Harris and American author Sarah Jaffe join us to talk about the past, present and future of political protest.
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