Radio National Summer Thomas Paine
Wednesday 26 July 2006, 6pm
Thomas Paine
English-American writer and revolutionary Thomas Paine had a profound influence on the French revolution, the American Revolution and English radicalism. And his ideas shaped the way all of us understand the concept of rights, democracy, the welfare state, and the concept of United States.
Presenter: Phillip Adams
Other Guests: Christopher Hitchens (Writer, polemicist)