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[Brighton] new Documentary tonight about the Brighton Bombing



Bry Nylon

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Cheshire Cat said:
I don't think so. The copyright at the end was 2024.
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Ah - ok. There were two different documentaries about the Brighton bomb on the BBC last night.

One on BBC2 from 9pm-10.15pm and another on BBC4 from 10.15pm - 11.15pm.

I was referring to the latter, which was first shown in 2004. Perhaps the one shown at the earlier time is a more recent production.
 




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Bry Nylon said:
Ah - ok. There were two different documentaries about the Brighton bomb on the BBC last night.

One on BBC2 from 9pm-10.15pm and another on BBC4 from 10.15pm - 11.15pm.

I was referring to the latter, which was first shown in 2004. Perhaps the one shown at the earlier time is a more recent production.
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Definitely a new one on BBC2 last night.

I agree with a poster above - nothing new, but still good to see and remember such important local history
 


aftershavedave

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as 10cc say, not in hove
My mates were living just next door. Had their windows blown out, and typical students slept through the whole thing. That Airey Neave article is very interesting
 


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KZNSeagull said:
I thought the documentary was a bit poor really. Didn't tell us anything we didn't already know.
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It wasn’t intended to offer some big new angle. It’s a documentary about something that happened 40 years ago. The majority of the population will have no recollection of the event.
Falmer Flutter © said:
Pretty sure I'd never heard of Airey Neave before this documentary. He was the Tory MP killed by the car bomb just before the 1979 election. I'm currently reading D-Day by Antony Beevor and he only got a mention today in the chapter about the liberation of Paris. Bizarre. Apparently he was also the first British POW to escape from Colditz.
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Airey Neave was very high profile at the time. I’d seen him interviewed on TV about his exploits at Colditz. He also had some role at the Nuremberg Trials after the war. His nickname when I was at school was Hairy Knees.
Bry Nylon said:
That’s because it was first broadcast 20 years ago.
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I made the same mistake. Searched for Brighton on iPlayer and watched the documentary, disappointed that it was a repeat from 20 years ago (still interesting though). I then noticed there was another, new one! Halfway through that one. Will finish it tomorrow. I’m all bombed out at the moment.
 


Cheshire Cat

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Nov 4, 2006
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Sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off...
Bry Nylon said:
Ah - ok. There were two different documentaries about the Brighton bomb on the BBC last night.

One on BBC2 from 9pm-10.15pm and another on BBC4 from 10.15pm - 11.15pm.

I was referring to the latter, which was first shown in 2004. Perhaps the one shown at the earlier time is a more recent production.
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I saw the BBC2 version.
 




lawros left foot

lawros left foot

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Surely, the correct response to the Brighton bomb would be to carpet bomb West Belfast, and if Ireland retaliated, carpet bomb Dublin.
 


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