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 man who wrote the rules on transitions of power in America.

If there's a period where it's not clear to the world who's in charge,

that can be very dangerous because of the security concerns.

Also a victim of police brutality in 1980s Chicago, we'll hear from the Turkish politician who

provoked an outcry by wearing a headscarf in Parliament.

I could see the hatred in their eyes, these men and women shouting in one voice, get out.

And the British code breakers who hastened the end of the First World War.

We were led rather secret lives as it were. We didn't mix at all.

One felt it was a pivot of information on which the safety of the country depended to a large extent.

That's all to come, but we're going to begin with an item which is topical today and which

has been so for the best part of a century.

As a result of any number of conflicts around the globe,

there are tens of millions of landmines left in the ground. According to the

international campaign to ban landmines, more than 4,200 people, nearly half of them children,

are killed or maimed by landmines each year. Efforts to get the issue of landmines and the clearance of this deadly debris highlighted

were given a considerable boost in January 1997,

when one of the most famous women in the world, Princess Diana,

walked through a live minefield in Angola to highlight

the dangers.

Fahanahyther has been speaking to Paul Heslop, who helped to organize the princess's

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