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Lord Mountbatten

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Last broadcast on Mon, 6 Sep 2010, 23:50 on BBC World Service (see all broadcasts).

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On 5 September 1979, world leaders and European royalty gathered in London for the funeral of Lord Mountbatten. He'd been killed in a bomb attack by Irish republicans. Timothy Knatchbull, Mountbatten's grandson tells Witness about the day he lost, not just his grandfather, but his identical twin brother.

Broadcasts

  1. Mon 6 Sep 2010
    05:50
  2. Mon 6 Sep 2010
    08:50
  3. Mon 6 Sep 2010
    11:50
  4. Mon 6 Sep 2010
    23:50

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