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Terror Through Time Episodes

  1.

    The New Face of Terror

    Has our response to terrorism changed since 1800? Fergal Keane ends his series.

  2. Laying Down the Law

    Fergal Keane examines how the legal system has changed to tackle terrorism since 9/11.

  3. Mujahideen On Tour

    Islamic fighters ed the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Fergal Keane gauges their impact.

  4. Death Wish: Battling Suicide Bombers

    Fergal Keane visits Israel to discover how suicide bombing changed society.

  5. Beirut: City of Terror

    Beirut became a crucible of terrorism in the 1980s. Fergal Keane revisits the city.

  6. Northern Ireland: The End Game

    Fergal Keane on the peace deal that brought the long conflict with the IRA to an end.

  7. Tiger, Tiger

    Fergal Keane visits Sri Lanka to reassess the suicide bombers of the Tamil Tigers.

  8. Afghan Dawn

    Fergal Keane on the first stirrings of Islamic fundamentalist violence in Afghanistan.

  9. State Sponsored Killers

    Fergal Keane reveals how governments have used terrorists for their own ends.

  10. Mossad: The Wrath of God

    The extraordinary history of Mossad, Israel's international security agency.

  11. Africa Erupts

    Fergal Keane considers the dilemma the ANC faced over the use of terrorist tactics.

  12. Six Against Sixty Million

    Fergal Keane asks what made the Baader Meinhof Gang turn to terror in 1970s .

  13. State of Terror

    Fergal Keane explores the British response to paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland.

  14. Carlos: International Terrorist

    Fergal Keane considers the career of Carlos the Jackal.

  15. Hijack!

    Fergal explores the airline hijackings of 1970 and meets Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled

  16. Defeat from the Jaws of Victory

    Fergal Keane looks back on the 40-year struggle of the Basque separatists, ETA.

  17. The Return of the Gunmen

    Fergal Keane looks at how the challenge of change ignited violence in Northern Ireland.

  18. Killers in the Casbah

    The Arab revolt against the French in Algeria is explored by Fergal Keane.

  19. The British Way

    Fergal Keane considers Britain's counter terror techniques in Kenya and Malaya.

  20. The Murderous Mandate

    In 1947, a bomb in Whitehall brought the conflict in Palestine to British shores.

  22. Stirring the Middle East

    Fergal Keane on the British promises in WWI that provoked conflict in the Middle East.

  23. Empires Crumble

    Fergal visits Sarajevo to consider the legacy of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

  24. No Future: The Great Anarchist Scare

    Fergal Keane meets the anarchists who petrified the genteel society of the 1890s.

  25. The Fenian Dynamiters

    Fergal Keane tells the story of the first terrorist bombing campaign in Britain.

  26. Napoleon and the Birth of Terror

    Paris, 1800. Napoleon Bonaparte is caught by the blast from an enormous cart bomb.