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Death of an Anarchist
The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett, the first spacecraft to leave the Earth's orbit and travel to the moon and the experimental film-maker Derek Jarman.
The controversial death in police custody of Italian anarchist, Giuseppe Pinelli, the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett how Greece and Turkey almost came to war over a tiny rocky island in the Aegean sea, also the experimental film-maker Derek Jarman and how on Christmas day in 1968 Apollo 8 became the first spacecraft to leave the Earth's orbit and travel to the moon.
Photo:Giuseppe 'Pino' Pinelli, with his wife Licia and his daughters Silvia and Claudia. Credit: The Pinelli Family.
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Christmas Day 201623:06GMT
BBC World Service except News Internet
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- Christmas Day 201604:06GMTBBC World Service except Australasia & News Internet
- Christmas Day 201616:06GMTBBC World Service East Asia & Australasia only
- Christmas Day 201623:06GMTBBC World Service except News Internet
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