Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there

This week an appalling example of police violence that stunned 1980s India.

I saw a man crying for help and some people just watching him suffer.

The men had holes in his eyes.

We join a delegation that met the U.S. Embassy hostages in Iran.

We bought candy and flowers to bring to the hostages. Here we are in front of the

embassy. There are the students, they look like 11 year old students doing their

homework, but they had machine guns. Also the woman who transformed cancer treatment

recognizing the impact of the treatment on the patient and the family, it was very much a part of

what drove her to always try to do things better.

And a defining Berlin Wall rock concert.

Rock and pop music has an incredible power.

We're talking about freedom here, freedom of expression.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

But we begin this week with fake news.

However, this is not about President Trump's persistent complaints or allegations against the Russians or even the suggestion that

something less than the truth was peddled in the run-up to the Brexit vote. No, this is

about deception, jazz and sex, okay fictional sex, during the Second World War.

Alex Last tells the story of how Britain set up fake German radio stations to undermine the Nazi

war machine. If you'd listen to the radio during the Second World War,

you might just have come across the sultry voice of Vicky.

Here is Vicky with a three cousin.

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