Tom Holland
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205 recordings
9 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 2d ago
Tom Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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behave as politely as they can, but they don't want to get wet.
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That's reasonable.
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But you can see that those stories that, you know, he gets cut, splashed with mud and everything.
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This is being used to explain his hostility to the monarchy and his desire to bring down the regime and all.
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I don't think this is true at all.
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Okay.
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I mean, I think it probably didn't help make him into a monarchist or anything like that.
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But I don't think it explains what is inspiring him in the revolution because there are much, much more formative influences, as we will see.
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So Robsier does very well at school.
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He qualifies as a lawyer and he returns to his hometown where he makes a name for himself as a friend of the poor.
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He is always taking on the cases of people who can't afford legal representation.
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Okay.
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And so he makes a good name for himself.
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People see him as a virtuous, principled person, an admirable person.
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But having said that, I mean, he seems destined for a life of the utmost provincial obscurity.
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Except that Robespierre himself, I think, is daring to dream.
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He's daring to dream of a better life and a better order for France.
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And the reason for this is the very familiar one that he's been reading a lot of books.
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and Robespierre has read all of them.
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Yeah, so back in the 17th century, Thomas Hobbes said that he would ban the reading of histories by the Greeks and the Romans because it just fostered rebellion and revolution against kings.
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