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1707: The Birth of Britain

Sunday 1 April 2007 17:00-17:54 (Radio 4 FM)

Allan Little presents George Rosie's dramatised account of the wheeling and dealing which led to the Act of Union of 1707, which merged the parliaments of England and Scotland. In a tale of bribery, corruption and fiercely argued negotiation, he overhears the deals done in London coffee houses and the spin doctoring in Edinburgh inns which resulted in the Union and the beginning of the country we now call Britain.

With John Sessions as Daniel Defoe.

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