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How I Survived a Fire on a Plane

How I Survived a Fire on a Plane

A lucky escape from a jet plane fire in the 1970s and the killing of Steve Biko.

The History Hour · BBC World Service

September 15, 201850m 13s

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Show Notes

A lucky escape from a jet plane fire in the 1970s, Chamberlain's talks with Hitler in 1938 plus the killing of the South African anti-apartheid campaigner, Steve Biko. Also toxic waste being shipped around the world in the 1980s and how Britain became obsessed with the idea that aliens were responsible for crop circles.

(Photo: Ricardo Trajano as a young man. Copyright: Ricardo Trajano)