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 from a hundred years ago a plot to overthrow the British in India.

Plus, we'll meet the woman who first managed to hand-rear African elephants

orphaned by poachers.

We know them almost as well as our own children,

and we love them equally.

And Hal Prince, the man behind the musical that dared to be different.

The whole trajectory of the show was completely unprecedented.

Everybody said, what in hell is amusing about Nazis?

Life is a cabaret, old chum.

Come to the cab. The Cabaret old Chum,

Come to the Cabaret.

That's all to come.

But first, the years immediately after the Second World War were characterized by huge changes and evolving sometimes

hardening attitudes. The tectonic plates of competing ideologies were shifting, an iron curtain between East and West appeared.

In the midst of these global tensions, individuals and groups of people could find their lives

turned upside down by powerful forces beyond their control. That's what happened to one group of key workers in

France in 1948. They were coal miners who found their wages and conditions cut in the post-war

austerity and they went on strike.

But as this report from Lisa Louis reveals, they were crushed by a government fearing the influence

of creeping communism. of Creoleism.

We had been the man the the the

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