Mr Best's pipe causes stir at the BBC!

(22 May 2010)

On 19th May Senior Master Mr Best was interviewed by BBC Radio 4 for its current series "A History of the World in 100 Objects". He had uploaded onto the BBC website some information about a 1790s' clay pipe (pictured) which has a relief moulding of Wedgwood's "Am I not a Man and a Brother?", the earliest important logo for a public campaign.

The incongruity of smoking slave-grown tobacco in an anti-slavery pipe caught the producer's attention. Mr Best hands round the pipe bowl when teaching the abolition of slavery to the Year 12 historians. Apparently, Mr Best is to be 45 seconds' worth of UGC (user generated content), but it is not yet known when the clip will be dropped into a programme. Those interested might like to log on to www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld.

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