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The Marcos regime in the Philippines
FromThe History Hour
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
May 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Max Pearson introduces first-hand accounts of the rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior in the 1970s and 80s; plus, Shanghai during World War Two, and the opening of the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union. The History Hour also hears how the murder of a young West Indian called Kelso Cochrane changed race relations in Britain in the late 1950s.
PHOTO: Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in Manila in 1977 (Getty Images)
PHOTO: Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in Manila in 1977 (Getty Images)
Released:
May 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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