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Fame Is The Spur by Howard Spring

Fame Is The Spur - Howard Spring

bookshelves: radio-4x, published-1940, summer-2011, filthy-lucre, britain-england, fraudio, lifestyles-deathstyles, play-dramatisation, period-piece, victoriana

Read from June 17 to 29, 2011

 

 

Influences - Fame is the Spur by Howard Spring

Starring Ian McKellen. The title is taken from a Milton poem. Believed to be based on the career of the Labour Party politician Ramsay MacDonald.



Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/...

Along with The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, this socialist classic is the basis of UK Labour Party doctrine. NB this Labour style has nothing to do with Blair's New Labour.