Hello there, fellow time travellers, dearly beloved.

Great to have you with me as we travel through time and space together, trying to understand the

past, the present and the future. What an ambition. We can't tell what the future holds for us, but what we can do is look back.

We can look back into history in pursuit of lessons, wisdom, anything that might help us cope with

the present. God knows we need help to cope with the present.

And from that point you can maybe look ahead a bit and maybe try and plot a course into the future.

And that's what this podcast series is all about.

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towards the next stop in my love letter to the world. Recorder, microphone, action.

Revolution.

Revolution is a foot and feelings are running hot in Paris.

Food shortages, inflation, rising taxes and rent hikes are stoking the flames.

Fighting for fairness and equality, demanding the abolition of feudalism

and to make all equal before the law, it's all in play, but the mob is marching alongside and before too long terror

sweeps the country. A moment in history that comes to define the politics of revolution the world over.

Hi Neil, last week we travelled with you to Southern Africa to witness a battle that was 14 1879

but would come to change the course of your life over a hundred years later. Where are we this week?

Morning Paul. Yes we're leaving Africa the Battle of East Santa Loana and the mighty

Zulu warriors and we're heading to France. It's 1789, a jumbling of those numbers previously mentioned,

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