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World Service,23 Nov 2019,53 mins

I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests

The History Hour

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The woman who risked her life to reveal that the army, not left-wing rebels, were responsible for the murder of six Jesuit priests in 1980s El Salvador; the moment when the Taser first hit the streets; the long legal fight to reclaim Klimt's masterpiece Woman in Gold; the man who got the Delhi metro built; and travels in Arabia with Wilfred Thesiger. (Photo: a plaque commemorating the murdered priests in San Salvador- courtesy of David Mee)

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