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Historical investigation programme, taking a document as a starting point from which to shed new light on past events
Document - 06/04/2009
Mike Thomson investigates why black African soldiers in the Free French army were denied the glory of liberating Paris in August 1944.
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Document - 08/03/2010
Mike Thomson investigates Britain's secret involvement in the North Yemen Civil War, despite prime minister Alec Douglas-Home's 1964 declaration that Britain would not intervene.
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Document - 15/03/2010
Mike Thomson investigates the story behind the German prisoners of war forced to work in Britain for three years after the Second World War had ended.
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Document - 16/08/2010
Mike Thomson asks what happened to the highly toxic chemicals released in the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster in 1988.
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Document - 16/11/2009
Mike Thomson reveals how PM Harold Macmillan misled parliament in 1960 when he refuted claims that Britain used brainwashing techniques on prisoners in the Second World War.
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Document - 22/03/2010
Mike Thomson investigates how a covert black propaganda campaign compromised reporting of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s.
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Document - 23/08/2010
Mike Thomson explores an American document suggesting that the mass hysteria and four deaths in a French town in 1951 wasn't caused by poisoned bread but by the CIA testing LSD.
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Document - 23/11/2009
Mike Thomson investigates Britain's role during the 1970 coup in oil-rich Oman. History records that it was a family affair, but documents reveal London's hidden hand.
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Document - 24/07/2006
A Date with Bevin: In 1946, the British Secret Service was concerned about a plot by Jewish terrorists to assassinate the Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Mike Thomson investigates.
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Document - 30/08/2010
Mike Thomson investigates how Britain undermined British Guiana's democratic process as the colony inched towards independence in the early 1960s.
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Document - 30/11/2009
Mike Thomson investigates how Winston Churchill resorted to shady deals and bribery to stop Spain joining Hitler during the Second World War.
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Document - BBC Bias and the Iranian Revolution
Mike Thomson uncovers papers which accused the BBC of biased reporting as Iran descended into revolution in 1978 and 1979.
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Document - Britain's Cuban Missile Crisis
Mike Thomson presents the series throwing new light on past events. In October 1962, the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. What decisions was PM Harold Macmillan making?
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Document - Broadcasts from the Bunker
2/3. Broadcasts from the Bunker: At the height of the Cold War, the BBC devised a programme schedule to be transmitted in the event of a nuclear attack.
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Document - Episode 2
Series using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events. A Laudable Invasion? The story of a flawed dossier and an unlawful invasion.
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Document - Franco's British Friends
Mark Thompson uncovers evidence that a group of British aristocrats and celebrities helped fascist leader General Franco during the Spanish Civil War.
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Document - Kenya's Bloody Summer
A tale of murder and cover-up by the British Army in Kenya 50 years ago.
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Document - Leyland Buses, Cuba and the CIA
Mike examines allegations that CIA agents sabotaged consignments of British Leyland buses bound for Cuba in the 1960s after the UK government had declared its support for the deal.
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Document - Operation Safe Haven
Operation Safe Haven: In 1948, a representative of the airline KLM asked Swiss police to ease travel restrictions for Germans travelling to Argentina. Mike Thomson investigates.
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Document - Stop Pakistan
Stop Pakistan: How close did America come to launching a pre-emptive attack in order to prevent Pakistan from becoming a nuclear power?
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Document - The Case of the Suez Maru
Mike Thomson presents the series throwing new light on past events. He examines the events surrounding a massacre of Allied POWs by the Japanese in 1943.
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Document - The Doomsday Document
Mike Thomson presents the series throwing new light on past events. In May 1974, Prime Minister Harold Wilson drew up a secret plan to cut Northern Ireland adrift from the UK.
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Document - The Ghosts of Greenham
Series using documentary evidence to throw new light on past events. 1/3. The Ghosts of Greenham, presented by Mike Thomson.
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Document - The Gift of Democracy?
The Gift of Democracy: Mike Thomson investigates allegations by a former civil servant that Britain tried to rig Nigeria's first democratic elections before independence in 1960.
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Document - The Marriage Cordiale
The extraordinary tale of the 1956 French offer to turn Britain and France into one country.
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Document - The White House Coup
Mike Thomson presents the history series. 2/3: The White House Coup. During the 1930s, some of Wall Street's most famous names plotted to overthrow president Franklin Roosevelt.
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Document - The Woman Who Never Was
Mike Thomson re-visits a document that split the country in two and ended a politician's career.
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