Dan Jones
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first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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Hello, listeners.
You're listening to This Is History In Conversation, and it's my very great pleasure to be in conversation with one of the great film directors of our time, Paul Greengrass.
And everyone will know Paul from his brilliant work, United 93, some of the Bourne films, The Green Zone, and many, many more.
But this week, in fact, Paul's latest film, The Uprising, comes out, which is all about a favourite topic on this podcast, the Peasants' Revolt...
of 1381 so hello paul welcome to the podcast
Well, I wonder if we can start there because I'm trying to cast my mind back maybe three or four years when we first talked about the Peasants' Revolt because you had started work on a script about this event.
And as I recall then, although do correct me, you had a few different historical moments in mind.
And I just want to talk to you about what drew you to this one in particular.
one thing that's interesting there is that the, I suppose some people will look at a film about the Peasants' Revolt and automatically think this was spurred by January 6th, you know, the attack of the Capitol in the United States.
But, so it's interesting to know that the idea preceded that.
So I wonder if you could just say a little bit about what draws you to a historical moment for a movie.
well just for any listeners who are who want a very quick recap on the peasants revolve this is we're sitting the summer of 1381 in the movie there's been uh the black death has happened it's killed 40 to 50 percent of the population uh the government's policies in response to the black death have been to move the tax burden down to the ordinary people that's been heavily enforced there's a real sense that there's a moving away of the
Sounds
it?
It does sound familiar when we lay it all out.
the
of course.
Absolutely.
It's a feeling that the whole system is being rigged towards the people who are already losing.
Rigged against.
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