Bringing home the prime minister’s gold tooth

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Juliana Lumumba had to fight to reclaim the remains of her father, Patrice Lumumba.

He'd been the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo and an anti-colonial hero. He was assassinated in 1961 when Juliana was five years old, and no trace of his body was found. So when it emerged 60 years later that one of his gold teeth was in Belgium, Juliana yearned to bring it home.

Presenter: India Rakusen Producer: Rob Wilson Editor: Munazza Khan

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0:00.0	On a winter's night in 1974, a crime took place that would obsess the nation.
0:06.9	It was an extraordinary news story.
0:09.1	The story of an aristocrat, Lord Lucan, who's said to have killed the family Nanny,
0:13.7	mistaking her for his wife, then somehow just disappeared.
0:18.0	One of the great mysteries in English criminal history.
0:20.7	We're still looking for Lucan.
0:22.1	It's honestly one of the most powerful stories
0:24.4	of my lifetime.
0:25.9	I'm Alex Fontunzelman.
0:27.3	This is The Lucan Obsession.
0:29.2	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	Love Janessa is the True Crime Podcast
0:34.1	from the BBC World Service
0:36.3	and CBC Podcasts,
0:38.3	investigating the murky world of online romance scams.
0:41.7	She was trying to get me to send her money.
0:44.5	Catch up with the whole series now.
0:46.6	Search for Love, Janessa, wherever you found this podcast.
0:50.1	You win their hearts, you win their wallet.
0:53.8	Spiritually is important that his soul, wandering in eternity, can come back to the land of his ancestors.
1:07.4	All this grief, all this anger, all this bloodshed, because it's not only him, it was a long list
1:18.6	of his followers. They were crying and they were asking for justice. And we cannot do it if he's still not back. For decades,
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