In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into tyranny, what they wanted was nothing less than a revolution of the mind…

I spoke to Andrea Wulf about her amazing book Magnificent Rebels, which brings historical figures to life whose echoes I had heard loud and clear during my time in Jena in central Germany where I studied history and they dreamt up new ways of thinking, loving, writing and creating over 200 years earlier.

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