You're listening to a podcast from the BBC World Service. This is Hard Talk with me, Stephen Sacker.

Thanks for downloading this edition of the program. I do hope you enjoy it. Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World

Service. My guest today has devoted an enormous amount of her life to the fight for justice for a sister taken from her when she was still a child.

Julie Hamilton was 11 when her big sister, 18-year-old Maxine, went into Birmingham City Center to meet friends in November 1974.

Maxine was in the tavern in the town when an IRA bomb went off. She was killed instantly.

In all 21 people were murdered in two bomb attacks aimed at two different pubs within a few minutes of each other.

Judy's life was changed forever that day.

Alongside the loss and the grief, there grew an intense determination

to see justice done on behalf of the victims of the Birmingham bombings. But justice has proved

elusive. Six men were eventually tried and convicted of the murders, but those convictions were

overturned after it was proved beyond doubt that the

police had got the wrong men. Julie Hambleton joined up with other families who lost loved ones

to create a movement, justice for the 21. Earlier this year, she attended every day of the

reopened official inquest into those deaths, which included testimony from one

convicted former IRA man who named four men who allegedly carried out the bombings. Three are now

dead. The police say the pub bombing investigation is still open and active. Will the truth ever come out?

Well, Julie Hamilton joins me now. Welcome to Hard Talk.

Thank you for inviting me. You've just been through an extraordinary experience. You've sat through

weeks of a formal inquest, hearing the most harrowing evidence about the death of your sister Maxine.

And the twist to this is that she actually was murdered by an IRA bomb more than 44 years ago.

So what emotions, all of this time later, did that inquest stir up in you?

Well, it wasn't just for me.

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