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The History Hour: Death of an Anarchist

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Death of an Anarchist

24/12/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The History Hour, Death of an Anarchist

The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett and flying to the moon

The controversial death of Giuseppe Pinelli, Samuel Beckett, the first spacecraft to leave the Earth's orbit and travel to the moon and the experimental film-maker Derek Jarman.

The controversial death in police custody of Italian anarchist, Giuseppe Pinelli, the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett how Greece and Turkey almost came to war over a tiny rocky island in the Aegean sea, also the experimental film-maker Derek Jarman and how on Christmas day  in 1968 Apollo 8 became the first spacecraft to leave the Earth's orbit and travel to the moon.

Photo:Giuseppe 'Pino' Pinelli, with his wife Licia and his daughters Silvia and Claudia. Credit: The Pinelli Family.

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