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25 Aug, 2018 10:58

Episode 242

Despite a tidal wave of negativity – much of it from his own side – Jeremy Corbyn has achieved the greatest increase in the Labour vote since Clement Attlee in the historic landslide of 1945. As the Americans say...who’d a thunk it? Corbyn outperformed Gaitskell, Wilson, Callaghan, Foot, Kinnock, Blair, Brown, and Miliband and the Labour Party has tripled in size during Corbyn’s three-year reign. It’s bigger than all the other parties put together. It has millions in the bank. It is the biggest left-wing party in Europe. And it is the bookies favourite to form the next British government. Eminent Labour historian and biographer Francis Beckett has chronicled Labour leaders from Attlee to Blair to Miliband. His latest book, co-authored with former Tribune editor Mark Seddon, is marvellously entitled ‘The Strange Rebirth of Labour England.’ So, we invited him into the Sputnik studio to tell us what he has uncovered.

There are plenty of Unquiet Graves in the north of Ireland but lately the voices are crying out from beyond the cemeteries. Books, films and documentaries about the dirty war in the six counties are tumbling forth in a creative torrent and making waves around the world. If it’s still possible to be shocked by Britain’s colonial history, the critical mass of evidence of British state collusion with Loyalist murder gangs is a truly shocking thing. ‘Unquiet Graves’ is a documentary film that would make your blood run cold. It is winning awards and commendation everywhere. So, we invited Sean Murray, the award-winning Irish director and Alan Brecknell from the Pat Finucane Centre into the studio to tell us about the making of this remarkable film.

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