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In this episode Paul O'Mahony highlights a few big events that happened on 2 October.

Paul reads the start of "The Masque of Anarchy" - written by Shelley in 1819 - shortly after the "Peterloo Massacre".
A poem that wasn't published until 1832 for fear of public reaction.

Paul reads "So many good people" and "Nobody but you" - recent poems by Paul O'Mahony.