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Radio 4,26 Feb 2018,15 mins
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Anne McElvoy explores how an unlikely marriage between social researchers Beatrice Potter and Sidney Webb would have a profound effect on the story of British Socialism and the development of the modern welfare state. With: Michael Ward, researcher and writer working on a biography of the Webbs Baroness Dianne Hayter, former General Secretary of the Fabian Society Professor Steven Fielding of the University of Nottingham Producer: Sarah Shebbeare.
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