The Marcos regime in the Philippines
The rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior; Shanghai during World War Two; McDonald's in Russia
The History Hour · BBC World Service
May 21, 202250m 18s
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Show Notes
Max Pearson introduces first-hand accounts of the rule of Ferdinand Marcos Senior in the 1970s and 80s; plus, Shanghai during World War Two, and the opening of the first McDonald's in the Soviet Union. The History Hour also hears how the murder of a young West Indian called Kelso Cochrane changed race relations in Britain in the late 1950s.
PHOTO: Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in Manila in 1977 (Getty Images)