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🗓️ 6 March 2024
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25 April is Freedom Day in Portugal. Five decades ago on that date, flowers filled the streets of the capital Lisbon as a dictatorship was overthrown.
Europe’s longest-surviving authoritarian regime was toppled in a day, with barely a drop of blood spilled.
In 2010, Adelino Gomes told Louise Hidalgo what he witnessed of the Carnation Revolution.
(Photo: A young boy hugs a soldier in the street. Credit: Jean-Claude Francolon/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images)
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
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0:28.5 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. Hello and welcome to the Witness History podcast from the BBC World Service. |
0:41.2 | We're taking you back half a century to a military coup which paved the way for |
0:45.4 | Portuguese democracy. In 2010 Adeleino Gomez told Louise Hidalgo how a 41-year regime |
0:52.4 | was toppled in a day. |
0:54.5 | Grendula, the vila Murena, |
0:57.7 | their other fraternitat. |
1:00.1 | 20 past midnight from the 25th of April 1974 and on Portuguese radio the |
1:07.1 | presenters reading out the first line of a protest song Grandula Villamorena |
1:11.6 | it's a secret signal. A coup by left-leaning army officers against Portugal's |
1:16.9 | authoritarian rulers has begun. journalist Adelino Gomez had been banned from broadcasting a few years before after |
1:29.6 | upsetting the regime's senses. Now he worked for an opposition magazine. That morning he was |
1:36.4 | woken in the early hours. |
1:39.4 | Someone knocked the door. I was sleeping. It was something strange at that time because when someone knocked |
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