The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970’s, with Jason Burke (Part One)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. Today's episode is part one of our recent live event with Jason Burke, the international security correspondent for The Guardian. Burke joined the rest is classified co host Gordon Carrera at the Kiln Theatre in London to discuss the remarkable true stories of the extremists Who hijacked the 1970s.

In that turbulent decade, a network of radicals, from Leila Collard and Carlos the Jackal to the Bader Meinhof gang, targeted the West with hijackings, hostage takings, and spectacular acts of political violence. Drawing on declassified archives and original interviews, Burke takes us inside the attacks that defined the era. from the Munich Olympics to the Iranian Embassy siege in London and the early 1980s Beirut bombings. Let's join our host, Gordon Carrera, now with more. Hello everyone.

Welcome to this Intelligence Square event. I'm Gordon Carrera. I host a podcast called The Rest is Classified and write about some of the issues we might be talking about today, and I'm absolutely delighted to speak to Jason Burke, who is the international security correspondent for The Guardian. A foreign correspondent for almost 30 years, reporting in the Middle East, Africa, all around the world, definitely one of the foremost writers on terrorism, written a number of books, and we're here to speak about his new book. You can see here, The Revolutionists, the story of the extremists who hijacked the 1970s.

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