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| Heroes
and Heroines |
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people focus on their heroes and heroines of the last one hundred
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Father
of India
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Rajmohan Gandhi, remembers a grandfather who as well as being
the head of his family, was also the father of India. Mahatma
Gandhi led a campaign of non violent protest to achieve independence.
The act giving India self government came into force on August
15th 1947, bringing with it the partition of the country into
India and Pakistan and months of civil unrest and violence.
Rajmohan recalls events of that time culminating in the assassination
of Mahatma Gandhi on January 30th 1948.
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Evita
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Christina Alvarez Rodriguez, Eva Peron’s grand niece tells of
the childhood and rise to power of one of the world’s richest
and most powerful women. The wife of General Juan Peron, President
of Argentina, Eva Peron assumed absolute control alongside her
husband in 1946, purging the unions and dispensing patronage
with a driving ambition. She died of cancer in 1952 but her
legend is immortalised on film and still cherished by many people
in Argentina.
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An
Arab Nationalist
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Hoda Abdel Nasser, Professor of Political Science at Cairo University
remembers her father and their family life. Gamal Abdel Nasser
was President of Egypt from 1956 until his death in 1970 and
is regarded as the most influential advocate of Arab unity in
the 20th century. His prestige soared among the Arab States
when Egypt retained control of the Suez canal in 1956 but Hoda
believes that his true qualities, came to the fore during the
6 day war in 1967.
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Remembering
JFK
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Robert MacNamara Secretary of Defence to the Kennedy administration
remembers the President at the time of the Cuban missile crisis
and the private moments he shared with the Kennedy family. John
Fitzgerald Kennedy was inaugurated as president of the United
States on January 20th 1961 pledging to introduce a programme
of social reform at home and a foreign policy seeking to break
the ‘vicious and dangerous cycle’ of the Cold War. He had scarcely
1000 days in office before he was assassinated on November 22nd
1963.
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The
People's Princess
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Jayne Fincher was the only woman photographer in the royal press
corps which accompanied Diana, Princess of Wales on most of
her royal tours. She shared off-duty moments with the Princess
as she went about her work with charities and was also in Westminster
Abbey on September 6th 1997 to photograph her funeral when a
million people lined the streets of London to mourn the ‘People’s
Princess’.
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