94. Pete, Dave and Bobby

Pete, Dave and Bobby are the subjects of this episode. But Pete’s a place not a person. It’s St Peter’s Field near Manchester, site of one of those epoch-shattering, and epoch-shaming, events that would mark British politics for the next decade or more.

Dave is another in the series of remarkable economists that started with Adam Smith. Apparently, he was also rather a nice guy.

As for Bobby, he was a new breed of politician, from a new class to produce leaders for Britain, and someone we’ll be hearing a lot more about in future episodes.

Illustration: Engraving depicting the Peterloo Massacre, by Richard Carlile. Public domain.

Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License