Louise Michel, BBC programme.

Submitted by rat on September 8, 2013

In a 30 minute BBC programme Great Lives Broadcast in Sept 2013, historian Carolyn Eichner, journalist Paul Mason and Matthew Parris discuss the 19th Century French anarchist, Louise Michel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039ctgh

Also Libcom has articles on Louise Michel:
http://libcom.org/history/anarcho-feminism-louise-michel-marian-leighton
http://libcom.org/history/articles/1830-louise-michel

Chilli Sauce

10 years 7 months ago

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Submitted by Chilli Sauce on September 8, 2013

It's pretty good, well worth a listen. Personally I learned a lot - not only in terms of Michel, but the commune itself.

Noah Fence

10 years 7 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on September 8, 2013

This was really good. I wish I could learn more history in this way - low effort, high reward.
I like this program anyway and having heard it a number of times by chance I've got to say Matthew Paris is a great broadcaster.
Thanks for the tip Rat.

Noah Fence

10 years 7 months ago

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Submitted by Noah Fence on September 8, 2013

Is it on Iplayer?

Yep.

Ethos

10 years 7 months ago

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Submitted by Ethos on September 8, 2013

Thanks for sharing; that was very informative. I went ahead and downloaded the one on Wittgenstein, which was good, and the one on Orwell, which was very shitty. They only mentioned his time in the Spanish civil war at the very end and only in a dismissive sentence.

Mark.

10 years 7 months ago

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Submitted by Mark. on September 8, 2013

^Yes, as far as I know you should be able to get radio programs on iplayer but not TV. Link here.

kharkov

10 years 7 months ago

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Submitted by kharkov on September 9, 2013

For those interested, a very good book on the life of Luise Michel is “La Vie Ardente et Intrepide de Louise Michel” written by Fernand Planche.

In 1954 Ediciones del Movimiento Libertario en Mexico published it with the title “La Virgen Roja-Luisa Michel” translated from French into Spanish by Isabel Del Castillo, with further corrections by Liberto Callejas and B. Cano Ruiz.

Whether this book is available in the English language I have no idea.

rat

10 years 7 months ago

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Submitted by rat on September 9, 2013

iexist, I've sent a PM with a link to a downloadable mp3 of the programme.

rat

10 years 7 months ago

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Submitted by rat on September 12, 2013

The only bit that made me cringe was when Paul Mason said something like; 'I've seen a young Louise Michel at the anti G8 Summit in Gleneagles, she was dancing in a field to a samba band. Her face was painted and she was wearing pink fairy wings, she still has a lot to learn...'

Mark.

7 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by Mark. on May 10, 2016

Louise Michel - the graphic novel

http://www.mary-talbot.co.uk/sample-page/the-red-virgin-and-the-vision-of-utopia/

wojtek

7 years 11 months ago

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Submitted by wojtek on May 13, 2016

Revolutionary thinking: Paul Mason, Bryan and Mary Talbot, Dacher Keltner

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b079mcg6