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JoeyCape1977
01-24-2008, 08:12 AM
Hi all, here are some links to the radio series "Document" in which BBC journalist Mike Thomson uses recently unearthed and declassified documents to shed new light on past events. Each programme is about 30 mins long.
KLM helped suspected German war criminals escape to Argentina.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20080121.shtml

Uncovered details of a planned right wing coup in the USA in 1933.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

Jewish insurgency in post WWII Palestine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20060724.shtml

Kenya's bloody summer 1953.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20060710.shtml

British involvement in the Shah of Iran's 1953 coup.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20050822.shtml

A lot of the other links to other stories in the series aren't working.

circle kay
01-28-2008, 12:09 PM
Tonight's program at 20:00 UTC is about the BBC’s planning for WW3.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20080128.shtml

Some items from it were on this morning’s Today at 08:25
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/listenagain/