Bloody Sunday: 50 Years On

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Documentary, Society & Culture

4.1 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Fifty years ago on 30 January 1972, a day that came to be forever known as “Bloody Sunday”, soldiers of the First Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, shot dead 13 civil rights marchers in Londonderry/Derry. Peter Taylor tells the story of that day with a mix of his own unique archive and new interviews from those on all sides about what the events meant then and still mean today - including a rare interview with Lord Saville, who carried out an exhaustive 12 year Inquiry into the events of that day. Bloody Sunday was the moment that changed the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland. It saw the re-birth of the IRA with hundreds of new recruits joining in the immediate aftermath of that day's events. And it was the spark which ignited and intensified the so-called Troubles, which left 3600 dead and tens of thousands injured. Producer: Jim Frank Editor: Penny Murphy

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0:00.0	This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box.
0:05.0	The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from.
0:09.0	And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.0	The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape.
0:12.5	The IRA inmates who found a way.
0:14.5	I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path
0:19.5	through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history.
0:25.0	The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them.
0:28.5	Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds.
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1:07.0	The 30th of January 1972, the day for ever known as Bloody Sunday, is one of the darkest stains on
1:15.0	Britain's record in Ireland. I'm Peter Taylor and it's a day I will never
1:20.4	forget. It was my first ever visit to Northern Ireland, the day I came
1:25.3	face to face with a shocking reality of the conflict. I'm here in Derry, Londondonderry,
1:31.9	Derry, Londonderry 50 years after Bloody Sunday and I'm by the memorial that
1:37.8	commemorates the names of the 13 innocent people who were shot dead by British
1:42.3	paratroopers that day.
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