Peterloo

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May 9, 202151:45TV & Film

The massacre at St Peters Field in 1819 was a key date in the story of the development of democracy in Britain. Mike Lee's film sets out to restore that sense of outrage in loving and angry detail. Hosted on Acast. See a...

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