In Search Of Sovereignty
Seriously...
BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The American satirist Joe Queenan goes in search of sovereignty. He wants to know what it is, what's it for, and how old it is
"Now I know this is a big issue for you all right now. Over here we've been fighting over sovereignty since the eighties. The 1780s. But I still don't really understand what it is, nor why it's making everyone so mad."
With contributions from Professor Richard Bourke, editor of Popular Sovereignty in Historical Perspective; and Edith Hall the author of Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life.
The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
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| 1:14.8 | Back at the start of this year my friend and presenter Joe Queenen who's an American he wrote to me. |
| 1:21.0 | Yeah I'm gonna have some water here. Dear Miles he began. I've had some thoughts |
| 1:25.8 | about sovereignty. Are we going to do this now? Yeah you're on air. Okay you're running. |
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