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Episode 1: Suicide Commandos

Episode 1: Suicide Commandos

FromRecall: How to Start a Revolution


Episode 1: Suicide Commandos

FromRecall: How to Start a Revolution

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Length:
30 minutes
Released:
Sep 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The 1960s began as a time of promise for Quebec, with the feeling that the province was throwing off the shackles of its parochial past. But despite plenty of reason for hope, the seeds were being sown for radical revolt, and by 1963, Montreal would be shaken by political violence. We meet the victim of an early FLQ bombing, and dig into how her story was lost to history.
Released:
Sep 8, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (9)

The 1950s & 60s saw a wave of radical movements. Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution. The Black Panthers. Quebec and Canada had the FLQ — a showdown that dissolved into crisis. By October 1970, there were soldiers in the streets, communities on edge, kidnapping and terror in the headlines. But those frightening weeks were just the crescendo of a wave of terror and violence that was nearly a decade in the making. This series will reveal the stories of that time through immersive storytelling and the people who lived it: the bomb disposal expert on defusing live explosives, the survivors of terror, their families, and the radicals themselves.