A year when new alliances were formed but old hatreds intensified: the year when the EEC said Yes to Britain and the UN to China; the year when the IRA brought terror to Northern Ireland and Indian troops entered
Pakistan. Anthony King. Professor of Government at the University of Essex, gives the assessment of a contemporary historian as he looks back on the history of the year with the voices of those who made it.
Producers MICHAEL EMBER and HUGH PURCELL
This Review of 1971 is available as a BBC Record (REB 124) from mid-January