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.

Coming up an assassination attempt in 1982 which helped to push Israel into invading Lebanon.

The Israeli ambassador walked out of a diplomatic dinner at the Dorchester Hotel in Park Lane

at seven minutes past 11 last night.

Seconds later he lay bleeding in the gutter from gunshot wounds in their head.

Plus an Israeli policeman who helped to build the case against Adolf Eichmann.

I knew I could help. I can speak the languages that the documents were in.

And it was important to me to be part of the investigation because my whole family had been murdered in the Holocaust.

And the man responsible for the global couch to 5K craze.

You know, it didn't take that long.

I would say maybe it was three or four runs before the initial discomfort started to wear off.

And I thought, oh, this is something maybe

that I should try to keep on doing.

And I got the zeal of the converted.

That's all coming up later in the podcast.

But we begin with another set of student

protests from 50 years ago. 1968 was a turbulent year in much of Europe and the US

a newfound sense of free expression had led to demonstrations

against the old elites, against the inequalities of capitalism and against the Vietnam

War. That's certainly what was happening in the West, but there was also unrest in the Eastern

Block.

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