 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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A Devil of a coincidence; (1) FAMILY TIES: Tom Goodman-Hill plays John Lilburne, inset, in The Devil's Whore (2) TEEN SPIRIT: Andrea Riseborough as the fictional 17-year-old aristocrat Angelica Fanshawe.
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Byline: Sally Beck
WHEN actor Tom Goodman-Hill auditioned for Channel 4's lavish new Civil War drama The Devil's Whore, he kept one vital fact from the producers: he is a direct descendant of the historical figure he was hoping to portray.
Luckily he landed the role of firebrand activist 'Freeborn' John Lilburne, and will now be able to tell his ancestor's story to millions of viewers.
'I would have felt silly if I hadn't got the job,' says the 40-year-old. 'But the fact that I knew a lot about him gave me confidence. I came away thinking I'd done ...
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Lesotho's head of government to visit United States October 7-12. (Justin Meysing Lekhanya)
PR Newswire
; ...Moshoeshoe II, following a bloodless military coup on Jan. 20, 1986, which toppled the government of Dr. Joseph Leabua Jonathan. Jonathan, who had ruled Lesotho since its independence in 1966, had suspended the constitution and dissolved the...
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"This Matter of Women Is Getting Very Bad": Gender, Development and Politics in Colonial Lesotho
Magazine article from: African Studies Review
; ...initiated by the Roman Catholic Bishop Joseph Bonhomme, which coexisted, paradoxically...Api regularly supported her and Leabua Jonathan's conservative, pro-Catholic...General Election and permitted Chief Leabua Jonathan to become prime minister. However...
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Armed Men Hijack Bus Taking Pilgrims to Pope; Crisis in Lesotho Threatens Pontiff's Visit
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...connected with the beatification of Father Joseph Gerard, a pioneer French Catholic missionary...the country's prime minister, Chief Leabua Jonathan, was ousted in 1986. Pretoria had accused Jonathan of giving sanctuary to guerrillas of the...
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DEATHS IN THE NEWS
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...as me," he once said. Chief Leabua Jonathan, 72, prime minister of Lesotho...attributed to stomach cancer. Chief Jonathan was sole leader of Lesotho from...After World War II, she met Joseph Sperling, an Austrian refugee...
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'I ordered the Lesotho raid'.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service
; ...former Lesotho prime minister Chief Leabua Jonathan. A man calling himself Mophete...Force toppled the government of Jonathan. During the amnesty committee...Meyer and his wife Jackie Quin, Joseph Mayoli, Nonkosi Mini, Ngwenduna...
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Thursday, January 20
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...coup ousts Lesotho's authoritarian Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan; the United States observes the first federal holiday...extramarital affair. Protesting Filipinos force President Joseph Estrada to step down and Vice President Gloria Macapagal...
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Monday January 20
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...coup ousts Lesotho's authoritarian Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan; the United States observes the first federal holiday...extramarital affair; protesting Filipinos force President Joseph Estrada to step down and Vice President Gloria Macapagal...
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Sunday, January 20
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...coup ousts Lesotho's authoritarian Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan; the United States observes the first federal holiday...extramarital affair. Protesting Filipinos force President Joseph Estrada to step down and Vice President Gloria Macapagal...
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Tuesday, January 20
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...coup ousts Lesotho's authoritarian Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan; the United States observes the first federal holiday...extramarital affair. Protesting Filipinos force President Joseph Estrada to step down and Vice President Gloria Macapagal...
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Minority report. (column)
Magazine article from: The Nation
; ...pretty thing when you look into it too much." Thus Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness. Thus, too, the South...civilians and an attempt on the life of Prime Minister Leabua Jonathan. There have also been continual threats to seal the...
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