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The Arnhem Parachute Drop

Operation Market Garden, Brazil's nuclear accident, the Battle of Algiers, plus Britain's last steam train and the Cuban Five.

Operation Market Garden - the failed attempt to end the war against Hitler; plus, a deadly nuclear accident in Brazil, the film of the Battle of Algiers, the last regular steam train to run in Britain and one of the Cuban Five jailed in America for spying for Fidel Castro.

(Photo: Allied planes and parachutists over Arnhem, Getty Images)

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50 minutes

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Sun 23 Sep 201823:06GMT
BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only

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  • Sun 23 Sep 201821:06GMT
    BBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
  • Sun 23 Sep 201823:06GMT
    BBC World Service East and Southern Africa & West and Central Africa only

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