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, victims of the far right in 1970s London.

We are young people who got together. the far right in 1970s London.

We were young people who got together and we had only one agenda surviving.

Your safety, your life was important and to survive we felt we have to be united.

Also we'll join the last battles of the First World War.

You can feel the hair prickling up your spine with excitement because we knew that that was going to be the end of the war.

Plus Leningrad or St. Petersburg, the heated debate in 1991, and the invention of the

MRI scanner.

I said, if you realize that if we could ever do that in the human body we could get chemistry

from anywhere in the body and spark an unprecedented revolution in medicine.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

But first a look at life in Libya under Colonel Gaddafi.

The Arab Spring in 2011 was one of the defining moments of the early 21st century.

The overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi was among the most dramatic moments of those turbulent months.

Not least because it ended a regime which had lasted since 1969,

that was the year in which a group of army officers overthrew the king and declared Libya a republic.

One of the coup leaders was the then young Captain Maumma Gaddafi.

He went on to become Libya's erratic and repressive ruler for the next 42 years.

Louise Hidalgo has been speaking to the writer Hisham Mata, whose father Jabala

Mata would be one of Gaddafi's most prominent opponents.

In AAA, the crew appears to have been would be one of Gaddafi's most prominent opponents.

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