The Red Scare

Episode 6

The Red Scare

26 June 2022

On a fateful morning in 1926, while the crowds in Merthyr chanted ‘Caws a brioches’, their leader, Wat Tyler, appeared live on Good Morning Britain from his 400,000 groat manor in Tolpuddle.[1]

‘So, are you, like, a Marxist?’ demanded Richard Madeley. ‘Because if you are, that means you’re into revolution and bringing down capitalism!’