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Show #166 Down Memory Lane (a collection of past shows)

Looking back at past shows with late anarchist Benjamin Zephaniah, anarchist Dave Morris of The McLibel case, Trenton Oldfield who protested against British elitism by disrupting the 2012 Oxford vs Cambridge university boat race and Robert King of The Angola 3. Music by Wolves: UK Metalcore band’s single ‘Reformed (Try Love) from their debut album ‘Self-Titled’; https://ripcordrecords.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-2 .

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Show #95 ‘Undercover’ with Rob Evans

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Parts 1 & 2 of an interview with co-author Rob Evans.

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Show #85 Police spies

Police surveillance at the student march April 2012

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In the last two years, details of undercover police pretending to be activists have slowly emerged. A new book by Paul Lewis and Rob Evans, Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police, provides the latest information about police sleeping with activist women while pretending to be someone else and officers using the names of dead children. The case that has outraged the public and led to promises of political action has been the revelation that police spied on the Stephen Lawrence campaign.

Donnacha talks to veteran activist Ellenor Hutson, who knew some of the police spies in their activist cover, about what’s happened and what should happen next.

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