Mark Steel Speech

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

I know there are a lot of people here who enjoy Mark Steel's "Vive la Révolution!" so I hope you'll enjoy this. It's a video of him giving a lecture presenting the book, so we get the stand up history of the Revolution actually as stand up!

Mark Steel speaks about the French Revolution

Comments

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Haven't had time to look at the videos yet, but does anyone else find it ironic that one of the commenters feels guilty for listening to this instead of reading Schama or Doyle? Sadly, neither of them--though Doyle is marginally better than Schama--are any more accurate than Mark Steel. >__>

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

Throughout the speech he is constantly hating on Schama. I love it.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

It sounds brilliant. I'll have to wait to read it until I'm at a computer that's not in a library though. D: