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A season of programmes reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian uprising and Suez crisis of 1956.

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1956 Picture gallery
ÌýView a gallery of images from the Hungarian uprising and the Suez crisis.
The Hungarian Uprising of 1956

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Saturday 21 October, 2.30pm.
A love story set against the backdrop of the bloody Hungarian uprising of 1956 in opposition to the Russian occupation ...

Charles Wheeler

Monday 23 October 9.00am
Charles Wheeler retraces a journey in Hungary which he first undertook in 1956.
Listen to Hungary 1956

Budapest skyline

Tuesday 24 October 9.00am
James Maw travels to Budapest to find out how the Hungarian uprising is remembered in Hungary today.
Listen to Hungary's Unfinished Business

the hammer and sickle

Wednesday 25 October 11.00am,
Ivor Gaber tells how the events in Hungary destroyed the dreams of thousands of communists.
Listen to Comrades
The Suez crisis of 1956

Omar Sharif
Classic Serial - The Cairo Trilogy
Sun, 15th Oct - 29th Oct 3.00-4.00pm (rpts: Sat, 21st Oct - 4th Nov,9.00-10.00pm)
Omar Sharif stars in this epic family saga chronicling the life of a middle class - and downwardly mobile - family in an Egypt adjusting to the modern world.
ÌýListen to Omar Sharif talk about the trilogy.

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Thursday 26 October 2.15pm,
David Pownall's powerful drama exploring how in 1956, many families found themselves deeply divided over the decision to invade the Suez canal. With Sam Kelly and Maureen O'Brien.

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Friday 27 October, 2.15pm.
The unfolding crisis seen through the eyes of a 10 year English old girl living in Egypt, whose holiday diary over that summer of 1956 tells a poignant human story ...

Map of Suez

Saturday 28 October, 8.00pm.
Professor Scott Lucas uses new evidence to uncover the key role played by British intelligence services in "creating" the war with Egypt ...

Stephen Sackur
Revolution on the Nile
Wednesday, 1 and 8 November, 8.00-8.30pm
Stephen Sackur presents an Egyptian perspective on the career of President Gamal Abd al-Nasser, the father of modern Egypt and inspiration to the Arab nationalist cause.

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Friday Play - A Conspiracy of Sèvres
Friday 3 November 9.00-10.00pm
A drama uncovering the truth behind the illicit pact which ignited the Suez crisis.

Sir Anthony 
Eden

Saturday 4 November, 9.00pm.
Sir Anthony eden's recognised the power of broadcasting, but he was paranoid about the new, less deferential broadcasters ...
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