The Zimbabwe Massacres
The History Hour
BBC
4.4 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Robert Mugabe's brutal crack down on the opposition in the 1980s, a mass expulsion of Soviet spies from Britain in the 1970's and the working class film revolution of the 1960's. Plus the first frozen embryo and the death of a German student leader that sparked huge demonstrations.
(Photo: Robert Mugabe. Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson. |
| 0:05.2 | You're in the right place to hear more stories from the past brought to life by those who were there, |
| 0:09.3 | but before we get stuck into our latest collection of first-hand memories. Here's something else you |
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| 0:43.8 | That's all going to be available shortly. |
| 0:45.2 | Right now though, coming up in this podcast, a classic Russian spy scandal in 1970s Britain. |
| 0:51.1 | I remember at the time being told that it took nine agents to follow one Russian and so |
| 0:56.4 | we were in a put it mildly undignified position of not daring to say boo to the Russian goose. |
| 1:04.0 | Plus German student outrage in 1968 and how a 1984 breakthrough in freezing human embryos unleashed a moral and ethical backlash. |
| 1:14.6 | The church was in uproar. |
| 1:16.2 | There were people in the community who thought this was terrible. |
| 1:20.2 | But the majority thought it was just an astounding breakthrough in medical science. |
| 1:24.6 | That's all coming up later. But first we're going to Zimbabwe, where a recent play put on in |
| 1:30.5 | Harare seemed to signal a significant shift away from the Mugabe years, significant |
| 1:36.5 | because the work openly mocked the former president, and yet less than six months after |
| 1:41.1 | his removal from office, it was not shut down and the performers were |
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