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 the Algerians who fought alongside

the French colonial forces in the War of Independence.

We, Harkey, were always sent out in front of the French troops.

So when there was an attack, the Harkey would often be the first to die.

Plus, Mrs Thatcher's famous Bruge... the Harkey would often be the first to die.

Plus Mrs Thatcher's famous Brugge speech...

Mr Chairman, you have invited me to speak on the subject of Britain and Europe.

Perhaps I should congratulate you on your carriage.

And the French survivors of the Holocaust.

And he told me they'd walked for days on this death march out the camp and that his feet were bleeding.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

But we begin this week with one of the stories behind an issue which still plays a major part in American politics. It was in Chicago in the 1960s

that a group of feminists working under the name Jane carried out underground abortions at a time

when abortions were still illegal in most of the US.

Initially they gave counseling and put women who wanted to terminate their pregnancies in touch

with doctors who had performed the procedure, but when they discovered that one doctor they'd been with the

women who had performed the procedure. But when they discovered that one doctor they'd been working with was not medically qualified,

the women started to perform the abortions themselves.

Martha Scott was a member of that group and she's been telling Lucy Burns

about her experiences.

If you can't be careful, try to be good.

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