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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 3 - Transportation: A Journey Beyond the Seas
"Sentenced to Transportation to New South Wales for seven years..."
The harsh penalties handed down to wrongdoers at the end of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries were preferable to death by hanging which was still the sanction in place for more than 150 crimes.
But the sentence still often seemed far from commensurate with the crimes that it punished - often no more than a few pounds stolen by a servant from his master, a sheep thieved at dead of night from a farmer's flock.
Using the first hand testimony of convicts who survived the journey "beyond the seas" as they termed it, Voices of the Powerless is in Tasmania to find out what a sentence of transportation to Van Diemen's Land (as it was still known) really meant in the penal settlements of Hobart and elsewhere.
Interviewees:
Dr Ian Duffield
Senior Lecturer in History, University of Edinburgh
Professor Lucy Frost
School of English, Journalism & European Languages, University of Tasmania (TBC)
Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stuart
Research Fellow, University of Tasmania (TBC)
Tony Stagg
University of Tasmania (TBC)
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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 成人论坛 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 成人论坛.
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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