Six Men, Two Bombs, One Grave Injustice

HISTORY This Week

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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March 14, 1991. The Birmingham Six have been in prison for 16 years. Each of these six Irishmen was found guilty of 21 counts of murder back in 1975 – held responsible for bombs detonated at two popular pubs in Birmingham, England. They were accused of being part of an IRA terror campaign, but have maintained their innocence since the moment they were arrested. It turns out... they were telling the truth. Today, the Birmingham Six will be set free. How were they imprisoned for a crime they never committed? And why have the actual bombers never been brought to justice? Special thanks to Ed Barlow, producer at the BBC and creator of the podcast series In Detail: The Pub Bombings. To stay updated: historythisweekpodcast.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.2	History this week.
1:02.4	March 14th, 1991.
1:06.5	I'm Alana Kassanova Burgess.
1:10.8	The Old Bailey is very old. It's a I'm Alana Casanova Burgess.
1:14.1	The Old Bailey is very old.
1:19.8	It's a courthouse in London that was first built in the 1500s and has seen some of the more famous criminal proceedings in British history.
1:22.9	The gross and decency trial of Oscar Wilde, treason charges against radio propagandist Lord Ha-ha,
1:29.3	the trial of serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, convicted of murdering 13 women.
1:35.3	But today, out of the thousands of guilty verdicts handed down at the old Bailey, one of them,
1:42.3	or actually six of them, are being appealed.
1:49.8	Lord Justice Anthony Lloyd asks the six defendants to stand.
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