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Radio 4,14 Aug 2019,45 mins

Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.

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Recorded as his film Peterloo opened in cinemas and repeated now to mark this week's 200th anniversary of the Manchester massacre

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