The Age Of Terror

Peter Taylor explores the impact and legacy of four major acts of terror from the last 30 years

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Peter Taylor explores the impact and legacy of four major acts of terror from the last 30 years

First Aired

2008-04-15
Last Aired

2008-05-06
Creator
Genre

Documentary
Seasons

1
Episodes

4
Status

Ended
Language

English
Network

BBC One, BBC Two

Keywords:

terrorism counterterrorism

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Season 1

1. Terror International

Peter Taylor examines four landmark terrorist acts of the past three decades, and their effect on hist...More

Peter Taylor examines four landmark terrorist acts of the past three decades, and their effect on history, politics and psychology. In the first programme, the story of the 1976 hijacking of a plane by Palestinians allied with German Marxist revolutionaries, which ended with a daring Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Idi Amin's Uganda.Less

60mins 2008-04-15

2. Ten Days of Terror

Peter Taylor recalls the capture in French waters of a shipment of Libyan arms en route to massively a...More

Peter Taylor recalls the capture in French waters of a shipment of Libyan arms en route to massively augment the IRA's secret arsenal, and the paramilitary group's attack on a Remembrance ceremony in Enniskillen that followed less than a fortnight later, in which the quiet border town became the epicentre of the Troubles. Both events, in 1987, served to transform the political climate in UlsterLess

60mins 2008-04-22

3. The Paris Plot

Peter Taylor looks back to Christmas Eve 1994, when a group of Islamist terrorists hijacked a French a...More

Peter Taylor looks back to Christmas Eve 1994, when a group of Islamist terrorists hijacked a French airliner in Algiers and murdered three hostages before intelligence revealed they were planning to fly into a Parisian landmark. The chilling precursor to the attacks of September 11, 2001, was prevented when French forces stormed the plane, killing the criminals and freeing all remaining passengersLess