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🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Breht performs Howard Zinn's one-man play "Marx in Soho".
Outro music 'Weary Blues' by Madeleine Peyroux
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0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
0:09.5 | So today's episode is going to be something that we've never done before. |
0:13.6 | It's pretty experimental. |
0:15.7 | I hope I did it justice. |
0:17.4 | But basically this entire episode is going to be me performing Howard Zins, one man play |
0:24.1 | called Marks and Soho. |
0:26.2 | So Howard Zins wrote this play I don't exactly know when I assume sometime in the 90s. |
0:31.0 | So some of the references are just a tad off. |
0:33.6 | But it's basically a play of Marks coming back, asked the gods to come back to Soho London, |
0:40.4 | but through bureaucratic confusion ended up in Soho, New York. |
0:43.9 | So at the sort of turn of the millennium in the 21st century, Marks comes back to New |
0:48.6 | York and has about an hour to reflect on how things have changed since he died. |
0:54.6 | It's hilarious, it's profound, it's moving, it talks about his family, but it also has |
1:01.2 | critiques that are Howard's in. |
1:03.0 | So there will be something said that if you're an ML, you might not like when he, when he |
1:07.6 | rants against Stalin. |
1:09.1 | If you're an anarchist, you might not like when he rants against Becunean. |
1:12.4 | If you're English, you might not like when he rants against the English. |
1:16.1 | So don't take this as, I'll Brett believes everything he's saying. |
1:19.7 | This is a play. |
1:20.7 | I'm performing it. |
1:22.2 | There are things in here I disagree with. |
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