A powerful, inspiring and refreshing take on British history

* An extraordinary performance ... a series of short, powerful, live pieces intended to remind audiences of the enduring power of politicised speech and ... The end result is like a protest rally championing the act of protest itself Telegraph

Colin Firth (CBE) is a Bafta and Academy Award-winning actor. His films include The English Patient, Fever Pitch, Bridget Jones's Diary, The Importance of Being Ernest, A Single Man and The King's Speech. Anthony Arnove is the author of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal, editor of Iraq Under Siege and The Essential Chomsky, and coauthor, with Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People's History of the United States and Terrorism and War. He is the codirector of The People Speak with Chris Moore and Howard Zinn. David Horspool is an historian and editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of two previous books: Why Alfred Burned the Cakes and The English Rebel: One Thousand Years of Trouble-making from the Normans to the Nineties. A scholar at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he writes for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Telegraph and the New York Times.