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The Decade That Invented the Future: The 1970s

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Ten essays on how this remarkable decade shaped the world in which we now live.

Ten essays on crucial developments, one for each year of this remarkable decade, and how they shaped the world in which we now live.

The Decade That Invented the Future: The 1970s: 1979: Iran

1979: Iran

BBC Radio 4 - The Decade That Invented the Future: The 1970s, 1979: Iran

Writer Narguess Farzad explores the impact of the 1979 revolution in Iran.

Narguess Farzad, Senior Fellow in Persian at SOAS, explores the impact of the 1979 revolution in Iran. "The demise of the Peacock Throne and the success of the Islamic revolution in Iran was one of the most staggering events of the second half of the twentieth century ," she says.
Producer: Neil Koenig

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