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In Living Memory - Series 10

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Series exploring contemporary history

logo for In Living Memory - Series 10 - Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin
In Living Memory - Series 10 - Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin

Jolyon Jenkins recalls how the controversy surrounding a children's picture book that showed two gay men bringing up a small girl led to the now infamous Section 28.

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In Living Memory - Series 10 - Oil in Dorset

Chris Ledgard looks back to the 1980s to find out how newly privatised BP defied expectations in extracting oil from one of the most protected landscapes in the British Isles.

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In Living Memory - Series 10 - T Dan Smith

Jolyon Jenkins hears the story of T Dan Smith, Labour leader of Newcastle city council who was jailed for corruption in 1974 but whose memory is still cherished in the north east.

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In Living Memory - Series 10 - The Contraceptive Train

Contemporary history series. Chris Ledgard hears the story of the Irish women who, in 1971, defied Irish law by bringing thousands of contraceptives into the country from Belfast.

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