The Brighton Bomb – 1984

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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How the IRA came very close to killing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet and triggered a massive manhunt for that world famous crime fighting agency, the Sussex County Constabulary. Reading List: Killing Thatcher by Rory Carroll Buy Killing Thatcher through our affiliate bookshop and you’ll help fund [name of podcast] by earning us a small commission for every sale. Bookshop.org’s fees help support independent bookshops too. Support We Are History on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes, mugs and more! https://patreon.com/WeAreHistory We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Production by Simon Williams. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History. I'm Angela Barnes.
0:07.0	And I'm John A Farrell.
0:09.0	And before we get going, John, I wanted to do a little plug for our Patreon Club.
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.0	Members Club, that's what we're calling it.
0:17.0	Which means you get the episode a week early and ad free. So I guess Patreon members
0:22.8	have already heard this then, right? Well, a week ago, Angela, is that how it works? Yeah.
0:26.9	No, I mean, it's not a time machine, is it? It's not a time machine, actually. So they haven't
0:30.3	already heard this in the past, as I'm saying it right now. No, no. That's not how it works. I thought that was quite a good deal for a time machine, to be honest.
0:41.1	And ad free means you won't get this advert to buy my old cassette player.
0:46.8	So if you do want to join our Patreon, you get them a week early, you get them ad free.
0:49.7	Plus there's all sorts of merch and other perks and stuff.
0:50.8	Little bonuses.
0:52.5	Episodes that other people don't get.
0:57.7	Exactly. So if you'd like to do that, go to patreon.com slash we are history.
0:58.5	That was professional.
0:59.4	That was very well done. That was the only bit of that intro that was professional.
1:01.5	Made any sense.
1:02.3	What are we talking about this week?
1:03.9	Well, you've chosen the topic this week, John.
1:06.1	And it's a bit of history that's very local to where I live.
1:09.1	Yes. And it's a story from our own lifetime, although I was
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