Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

Season 1 Episode 3: Episode 3

Sep 24, 2019 NR 1h 8.8

When Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street in 1979, she was confronted by an IRA prepared to conduct a long war of attrition against Britain.

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Season 1 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...


Info about Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Four

Production Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom

Genres: Documentary