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.

This week from 1969 how the British military deployment in Northern Ireland started deceptively well.

It was just all very cheery and they seemed very happy to see us and that we would be stopped in the

streets and offered cups of tea.

I mean literally.

Plus we'll be on board the US S. Nautilus, the first submarine to go under the North Pole,

and how a change to UK criminal justice became a model for the world by not

jailing convicts.

We had lots of visitors from overseas countries wanting to study our legislation. We became the most copied piece of

legislation in the Western world. And that's coming up later in the podcast. But we begin in the summer

of 1962 when hundreds of thousands of French

people who'd been living in Algeria for generations fled the North African nation

and sought safety in France. It was during the violent last days of Algeria's struggle for independence

and it was one of the largest mass migrations seen in Europe since the end of the Second World War,

but the French nationals who'd returned to their native land

were not always welcomed. Mike Lanchin has been hearing from one woman about her family's experience.

Michelle Hensel was just a small child when her family arrived in France fleeing the violence of the civil war in

Algeria. But it wasn't long before the little girl encountered hostility from her new classmates.

When I was a fan,

about five seasons,

we have got my own

ability in the Pyrenees

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