Misha Glenny
speaker
1,430 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
Misha Glenny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think that's the end of the podcast.
No tea from Simon this week, unfortunately, because we're in A, very sadly.
The Crosstwires Podcast Festival is back, bigger and better this year, in Sheffield.
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We'll be recording at the Montgomery Theatre on 4th July with a special edition of In Our Time on Casablanca.
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That's Bogart and Bergman and much more.
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Visit crossedwires.live slash fringe for the full list of programmes and how to get free tickets.
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This is In Our Time from BBC Radio 4.
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I hope you enjoy the programme.
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Hello.
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For really I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he.
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That simple idea of equality was what one group of political radicals were calling for during arguably the bloodiest period of English history, the Civil War.
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They became known as the Levellers, a group who pushed for a new constitution, an extended franchise, popular sovereignty and religious toleration.
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The Levellers printed pamphlets, signed petitions and took to the streets in their thousands.
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Though the movement itself may have been short-lived, the arguments that the Levellers made have inspired and challenged generations since.
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With me to discuss the Levellers are Theresa Bejan, Professor of Political Theory and Fellow of Oriel College, University of Oxford, Ted Vallance, Professor of History at the University of Roehampton, and Clare Jackson, Honorary Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Hall.
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Clare Jackson, the Levellers emerged during the mid-1640s.
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Can you set the scene for us?
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What was England like at this time?
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Before we get into the ideas and the nature of the movement, tell us about the name levellers.
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Where does that come from?
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