Taking Liberties: The Road to Peterloo

Devised by Actor David Frederickson, featuring songs and music performed by Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham. In August 1819 the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was angry. The Peterloo Massacre led him to write what became recognised as the most famous political poem of all time. So what made a poem so dangerous - after all this is England isn't it?