Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

2019 NR 8.6

Tells the story of the spiral of Northern Ireland into violence in the late 1960s, the attempts of the British Government to get control of the situation, the growth of the provisional IRA, the murky relationship between the security...

Tells the story of the spiral of Northern Ireland into violence in the late 1960s, the attempts of the British Government to get control of the situation, the growth of the provisional IRA, the murky relationship between the security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries and the long, tortuous path to to the end of the violence after almost three thousand deaths over a period of a quarter of a century of violence.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Episode 1

1. Episode 1

Aired: Sep 10, 2019

The Spotlight team traces how, in the 1960s, suspicion led to unrest between ...

Episode 2 Episode 2

2. Episode 2

Aired: Sep 17, 2019

The IRA anticipated that 1972 would be their 'year of victory', only to be co...

Episode 3 Episode 3

3. Episode 3

Aired: Sep 24, 2019

When Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street in 1979, she was confronted by ...

Episode 4 Episode 4

4. Episode 4

Aired: Oct 1, 2019

At the end of the Seventies, the IRA built its own internal security system t...

Episode 5

5.

Aired: Oct 8, 2019

Traces how unionist anger grew as IRA attacks on the security forces killed m...

Episode 6

6.

Aired: Oct 15, 2019

Loyalists killed more people than the IRA in the closing years of the Trouble...

Episode 7 Episode 7

7. Episode 7

Aired: Oct 22, 2019

How the UK government policy changed, from seeking to destroy the IRA to brin...


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BBC Spotlight on the Troubles

Info about Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Four

Genres: Documentary