The Chilean coup and Zanzibar’s most famous singer

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.

We hear from Chilean politician Hermógenes Pérez de Arce, who helped oust President Allende in 1973. We also hear from the widow of folk singer Victor Jara, who was killed during the military coup.

Our guest is Dr Camila Vergara, who is a historian and journalist from Chile, and a senior lecturer at the University of Essex Business School in the UK. She tells us more about the aftermath of the Chilean coup, and its lasting impact.

Eva Franchell speaks about her friend, the Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh who was murdered in 2003.

In the second half of the programme, campaigner Frank Heweston shares his experience on Greenpeace’s Arctic voyage to disrupt drilling on a newly built oil rig and we hear from a friend and promoter of Zanzibar’s most famous musician, Bi Kidude. Contributors: Camila Vergara - historian and journalist from Chile, and senior lecturer at the University of Essex Business School. Hermógenes Pérez de Arce – Chilean politician. Joan Jara – widow of Victor Jara. Eva Franchell – Anna Lindh’s former press secretary and best friend. Maryam Hamdani - friend and promoter of Bi Kidude.

(Photo: President Salvador Allende. Credit: Bettman/Getty Images)

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0:24.4	Max Pearson a collection of this week's witness history episodes from the BBC World
0:28.6	Service this week the murder of the Swedish foreign minister Anna Lind in 2003.
0:34.0	And then he suddenly sort of rushed towards us.
0:39.0	He passed me and pushed Anna towards the hangar.
0:45.0	Plus the Greenpeace expedition to disrupt the first day of drilling on a newly built oil rig in the Arctic
0:51.0	and the singer from Zanzibar who took the music world by storm in her 70s.
0:56.0	From that day, Bikido de was invited to France, to Japan, to Italy, Man and when you are good everybody wants you.
1:07.0	That's all coming up later in the podcast but first we're going to concentrate on an important anniversary.
1:12.0	If I were to say September the 11th, many will think of the Al-Qaeda
1:16.0	attack on New York and Washington in 2001. But for the people of Chile, it also marks
1:21.8	the date of the coup in 1973 that overthrew the democratically elected
1:26.3	socialist president Salvador Ayende and ushered in a long period of military rule under
1:31.1	General Augusto Pinochet.
1:33.3	For months in the run-up to the coup, right-wing politicians and activists in the military had been
1:38.2	increasingly angry about the President's policies.
1:41.4	To mark this imminent 50th anniversary Jane Chambers has been speaking to
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