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In December 1975, four members of one of the IRA’s deadliest units were chased by police through the streets of London before hiding out in a small flat owned by a middle-aged couple called John and ...

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British television from the 1950s through the 1980s was awash with racist language, homophobic slurs and sexist tropes.