Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History

  • Premiered: Sep 2019
  • Episodes: 7
  • Followers: 5
  • Ended
  • BBC Four
  • Tuesday at 20
  • Documentary Mini-series

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Season 1
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Episode 1
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Air date
Sep 10, 2019
Fifty years after troops were sent onto the streets of Northern Ireland, a leading team of investigative journalists uncover secrets about the decades-long conflict that claimed more .. show full overview
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Episode 2
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Sep 17, 2019
Reporter Darragh MacIntyre finds the IRA anticipating that 1972 would be their `year of victory’, only to be countered by a massive British military response in the midst of what became .. show full overview
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Episode 3
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Sep 24, 2019
When Margaret Thatcher entered Downing Street in 1979, she was confronted by an IRA prepared to conduct a long war of attrition against Britain. Jennifer O’Leary discovers arms .. show full overview
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Episode 4
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Oct 01, 2019
New revelations about how agents of British intelligence infiltrated the Irish Republican Army. By 1979, the British security forces believed the IRA had become so security conscious .. show full overview
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Episode 5
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Oct 08, 2019
New revelations about the Northern Ireland conflict from a leading team of investigative journalists. Episode five traces how unionist anger grew as IRA attacks on the security forces .. show full overview
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Episode 6
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Oct 15, 2019
An investigation into the murders of two young brothers uncovers secrets from the loyalist gang that carried out the attack.
1x7 Show finale
Episode 7
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Air date
Oct 22, 2019
The inside story of how the Troubles ended told by those who fought the IRA's war and by those at the heart of peace efforts.

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