In Our Time: CondorcetSeries 1, episode 0Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94), known as the Last of the Philosophes, the intellectuals in the French Enlightenment who sought to apply their learning to solving the problems of their world. He became a passionate believer in the progress of society, an advocate for equal rights for women and the abolition of the slave trade and for representative government Click to see when In Our Time, Condorcet is coming up on UK TV Cast (unconfirmed)
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