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, Iran caught bending the nuclear rules in the early 2000s.

The jury is still out, but if you are building a commercial power plant and you are enrich

uranium for commercial purposes, why this secrecy, why the deception? Plus from the 1950s, the C. Why the deception?

Plus from the 1950s, the CIA's first coup in Latin America.

And after the fall of communism,

what happened to Eastern Europe's dancing bears?

In the heart of the Bulgarian capital, Sophia's commercial and political centre,

a sight from medieval times.

A 14-month-old brown bear chained by rings through her nose and upper lip to her master.

That's coming up later. But we begin with the latest in our eyewitness histories marking the centenary of the First World War.

Over the last four years or so on this podcast we've heard a wide range of first-hand recollections

covering the fighting on land, on sea and in the air.

We've looked at the development of the mechanized warfare that made the conflict so devastating,

and we've heard about the impact on the home fronts for those nations drawn into what was supposed to be the war

to end all wars. But what about those who refused to fight? Alex Last has been

listening through the BBC's archive recordings to tell the story of Britain's conscientious that I regarded it as an imperialist war.

I had three years hard labor, I had eight months in solitary confinement.

We face the question,

now are you prepared to carry this opposition to war

to the point of being shot for your convictions.

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