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. In this edition, how a Kurdish song caused controversy

and worse in Turkey.

All of a sudden, all those cheek women and men,

they all turned into monsters,

grabbing forks and knives and throwing them at us.

Also we'll have government versus rebels in 1980s El Salvador,

man versus computer in the 1990s,

and the

music coming out of Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles,

was so good, was so exciting and was so in tune

with what millions of young Americans were thinking all of a sudden here was this magazine

that suited the new generation.

Pleased to meet you.

Hope you guess my name. That's all coming up later in this podcast. But first a trial which took place on a remote

island in the Pacific and which managed to make headlines around the world in 2004. There were a number of elements surrounding the case which came together to make this a remarkable story.

First, the location, it happened on the Pitcairn Island, made famous by the mutiny on the bounty.

It was there that British sailors who'd rebelled against their skipper, Captain Bly,

set up home in the 18th century.

Secondly, it was made extra newsworthy because nearly half the adult male

population of the island stood accused of rape and sexual assault, and the final clincher was the fact that the victims and the accused were all descendants of those

mutinous British sailors, including their leader Fletcher Christian.

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