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Chile Votes Against Pinochet

This week: Chile's referendum to end General Augusto Pinochet's brutal rule, a Russian dissident poet resists the KGB, the Spanish flu kills millions, and flights for Hoovers.

This week: Chile's referendum to end General Augusto Pinochet's brutal rule, a Russian dissident poet tells us how she resisted the KGB, the Spanish flu which killed millions after World War One, the last days of Lebanon's bitter civil war and the free flights for Hoovers ad campaign that fell flat.

(Photo: Celebrations after Chile's referendum result in Oct 1988 - Getty Images)

50 minutes

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Mon 17 Oct 201603:06GMT
BBC World Service Australasia

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