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Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

74 The Tolpuddle Martyrs, Dorset

Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

Fat Belly Films

News, Neil Oliver, History, Comment

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode as machines begin to flex their muscles the spectre of human poverty rises darkly and menacingly across the whole of the British Isles.

In C19th Dorset a small group of workers came together to dream of a better future. But for daring to stand up straight, demand dignity and call for a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work they were crushed by the authorities: arrested, tried and transported to work as slave labour in the penal colony of Australia. In their defence a public outcry swept across the country as people fought to save this group who became known as the Tolpuddle Martyrs.


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Kew the music. They wouldn't be walked over even if it meant being sent away to living hell in which they were supposed to die.

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In this episode, the specter of poverty rises dark and menacing across Britain as

1:36.2

machines become more powerful. Rebellion starts to spread, and brutal reprisals follow.

1:47.0

In Dorset, a group of workers came together to dream of a better future. But for daring to stand up straight, demand dignity and call

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