243. The Troubles: London Bombings, Hunger Strikes, & The Graveside Grenade (Ep 3)

Egal, ob ihr gerne flauschige Feste feiert, da nach dem Sonnenaufgang in Berlin die Bay watcht und die Lage der Nation diskutiert, oder lieber zu Hause bleibt und euer gemischtes Hacken scharfen Senf aus Hollywood verfeinert, bevor es auf die Couch geht, bei Finanzierungsbedarf ist Easy Credit der richtige Ansprechpartner. Denn bei uns schließt ihr euren Sofortkredit in fünf Minuten und ohne Papierkram ab. Außerdem reservieren wir euch kostenlos Geld, damit ihr keinen neuen Kredit abschließen müsst, falls noch einmal etwas braucht. So entspannt kann Finanzieren sein. Mit Easy Credit. Welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnan. And me. William Durumple. And once again we are joined by the brilliant Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing. And if you are watching the series on the television,

Can I just commend you to the book which contains just so much more. It's an absolute work of art, both William and I think so. One of my all time favourite nonfiction books. It's it reads like sort of Troom Capote risen from the dead. In the last episode, we ended on bloody sunday with the troubles reaching a climax in nineteen seventy two with a whole range of horrors. And we're now in July Nineteen seventy two. There's been a breakdown of talks.

And the IRA has launched a series of bomb attacks on the twenty first of july. Uh in what became known as Bloody Friday. Patrick, do you want to take the story from here? There's a story that I tell in my book about a guy named Brendan Hughes, who's one of my big characters, who was a commander in the Belfast IRA. A guy who was really revered by the people who followed him and as a kind of brilliant tactician. He was one of the people who helped conceive of this idea of on one day, nearly simultaneously,

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