Love in the time of revolution, part 2

Lives Less Ordinary

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.6 • 814 Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Pepe and Lucía: the bonfire of young love, a long separation, and rise to presidency.

The guerrilla lovers finally meet and fall for each other, but their joy is shortlived, they’re soon arrested again – and this time there won’t be any escape. Uruguay’s military coup means that the couple are separated by 13 years of brutal detention. When they’re granted amnesty, they find their way back to each other, and enter the political fray, all the way up to the presidency.

Presenter: Andrea Kennedy Producer: Louise Morris Dubbing by Fede di Lorenzo and Elizabeth Rhodes

Clips courtesy of Euro News, RDTV, France 24 and SBS.

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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	Lucan. It's honestly one of the most powerful stories of my lifetime. I'm Alex Fontunzelman. This is
0:27.7	The Lucan Obsession. Listen on BBC Sounds. Love when you're young, it's a bonfire. It's a whirlwind. Love, when you're an old man, is a sweet habit.
0:45.4	And love in a time of revolution has a particular and unique intensity.
0:50.4	You have to keep in mind that you are leading a life in which at any moment you could be arrested or end up killed.
0:59.2	So there is no space left for the common things of life, you know?
1:04.3	For the things common of life.
1:07.4	Definitely, it's important to have love.
1:10.3	It also has different characteristics in those
1:12.9	conditions. Everything's different. This is a love story that spans five decades all the way
1:23.5	from the bonfire of the early years to the sweet habit of today.
1:28.4	The two characters at the heart of it, Lucia and Pepe, have lived the most fascinating lives.
1:35.0	They met in extreme conditions.
1:37.6	They were urban guerrillas, Tupamaros, fighting to bring down an ever more repressive government.
1:44.6	And as part of that, they both independently have broken records for staging the biggest ever prison escapes.
1:54.0	They've also both gone on to serve in the highest office in their home country, Uruguay.
2:01.1	They've been busy.
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