June 2023

When the BBC refused to screen Dallas

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In 1985 the BBC lost the rights to screen the TV series Dallas to ITV and refused to screen the remaining episodes

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The kidnapping of Patty Heart by the Symbionese Liberation Army was dubbed a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome – but was it? Tony McMahon reports.

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The next recession will very likely resemble the early 1990s when suicide rates soared as TV historian Tony McMahon recalls and reports

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The 1971 Attica prison riot resulted in a massacre of inmates and guards and drew in the Black Panthers and President Nixon

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The start of the 1970s saw a huge surge in truck hijacking with billions of dollars worth of cargo stolen by organised crime

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The Munich 1972 Olympics saw the murder of Israeli athletes and a row over the Palestinian group being termed guerrillas and not terrorists