The Lucan Obsession: Trailer
One winter's night, 50 years ago, a crime took place that obsessed the nation.Lord Lucan is said to have killed the family nanny, attacked his wife and vanished. Why did this case capture the British ...
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The Brighton Bomb: 10. No Penny for the Pat
Remember remember the 5th of November. The Gunpowder Plot has been seared into centuries of British popular history. Why have the events of October 1984 and the attempt to wipe out a Prime Minister an...
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The Brighton Bomb: 9. Performance
When you get right down to it, everything in life is a matter of timing.Any other evening, a knock at the door would put Patrick Magee on alert. As chance would have it, though, it being a Saturday, r...
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The Brighton Bomb: 8. A Hotel Too Far
Spring 1985, six months on from the bomb at Brighton’s Grand Hotel that killed five men and women in town for the Conservative Party conference and came within feet of killing Prime Minister Margaret ...
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The Brighton Bomb: 7. Fight Them on the Beaches
Patrick Magee plays mouse to the cat of the Southern Irish police, acting on a tip-off from their colleagues in the North. He escapes back to Great Britain from Dublin and joins a new IRA unit plannin...
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The Brighton Bomb: 6. Out of the Rubble
It's the day after one of the most shocking terror attacks in British history - a timebomb hidden in the Brighton hotel where the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, and her cabinet are staying during ...
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The Brighton Bomb: 5. 2:54am
The IRA’s Patrick Magee has left a bomb, under a bath, in room 629 of the Brighton’s Grand Hotel. It’s timed to go off in three weeks, three days, six hours and thirty-six minutes, at 2.54am on Friday...
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The Brighton Bomb: 4. It's Going to Happen
When you get right down to it, everything in life is a matter of timing. It's the night of 17 September 1984. The guest in room 629 of Brighton’s Grand Hotel has ordered a bottle of vodka and three ...
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