The IRA hunger strikes

The History Hour

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History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The IRA hunger strikes of 1981 – Max Pearson hears from Suzanne Breen of the Belfast Telegraph about the impact of the hunger strikes in Northern Ireland. Plus, one man’s story of surviving Guantanamo Bay, how a French winemaker exposed a wine fraudster, feminist science fiction pioneer Ursula Le Guin, and cannabis coffee shops in Amsterdam.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:03.4	Welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson
0:05.1	The past brought to life by those who were there.
0:08.0	With me this week from the witness history team are Rebecca Kessby,
0:11.7	Simon Watts, Bob Howard and Josephine Kasse.
0:14.3	Hello.
0:15.3	Hello.
0:16.3	Coming up we've got sour grapes, the Mauritania, Ursula Leguins' dispossessed and
0:21.7	more. Sounds like a cinema film listing almost, doesn't it? Well, it could be, but
0:26.0	we've got the real people involved. Let's see who they are. Let's start with Rebecca. What are you doing
0:29.9	for us this week? Hi Max, yeah, I've got the story of life inside Guantanamo Bay through the experience of
0:37.8	one inmate.
0:39.2	And Joe?
0:40.2	Yeah, so I am speaking to a quite amazing French winemaker who exposed this multi-million dollar wine fraud.
0:46.6	Bob?
0:47.1	Hi Max, I'm looking at one of the first cannabis cafes in Amsterdam.
0:51.1	And Simon? Max, I've been off to the outer reaches of the universe to visit an ice world
0:57.8	called Gethan where human beings can be either a man or a woman. It all depends.
1:03.2	All of that will be unpacked later in the program.
1:06.0	But we begin with a piece from our archives because this week marks 40 years
1:10.5	since the death in a British jail of the Irish Republican prisoner Bobby Sands.
1:15.8	This was at the height of what was known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the long-running
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