Love in the time of revolution, part 1

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Pepe and Lucía: the guerrilla lovers who became the leaders of Uruguay

When they were younger, José Pepe Mujica and Lucía Topolansky separately joined a left-wing insurgency set on overthrowing the country's government. They wouldn't meet for years but they were on the same mission. Each went underground, cutting ties to friends and family while their group, the Tupamaros, carried out bank heists to fund the uprising. The law soon caught up with them both, but neither were prepared to stay behind bars for long. Presenter: Andrea Kennedy Producer: Louise Morris

Dubbers were Elizabeth Rhodes and Fede di Lorenzo

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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. It's honestly one of the great mysteries in English criminal history. We're still looking for
0:21.6	Loken. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fondonselman. This is
0:27.7	the Lukan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. Something mysterious plagues County Mayo on the
0:34.6	West Coast of Ireland and its legendary Gaelic football team.
0:37.8	Sometimes I think there's something sinister going on.
0:41.1	I believe in the curse. I think it's real.
0:43.3	Listen to the curious tale of the Mayo Curse
0:46.0	on Amazing Sports Stories from the BBC World Service.
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0:55.5	It was a complex operation.
0:59.7	We had the idea of disguising our arrival by pretending to be part of a funeral procession.
1:11.3	The idea was to take a commissary in Pando.
1:16.8	The idea was to take over a police station in Pando and the telephone exchange,
1:20.3	which would disrupt communication around the country.
1:24.4	We wanted to rob the bank and make a political declaration.
1:30.3	We had some accidents, a shoot out on the way back, and a few comrades were arrested.
1:43.3	And some were killed.
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