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Spring 1985, six months on from the bomb at Brighton’s Grand Hotel that killed five men and women in town for the Conservative Party conference and came within feet of killing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Police are now satisfied that they have identified the man responsible for planting the bomb - Patrick Magee, aka the Chancer.
They just don’t know where he is.
Magee is back in Britain, planting a bomb in a hotel across the road from Buckingham Palace with an even longer timer fuse than the Brighton bomb. A police surveillance operation on another IRA suspect, meanwhile, leads to an unexpected result.
Written and presented by Glenn Patterson
Series Producer: Owen McFadden
Executive Producer Rachel Hooper
A Walk on Air production in association with Keo Films
By BBC Radio 44.5
4646 ratings
Spring 1985, six months on from the bomb at Brighton’s Grand Hotel that killed five men and women in town for the Conservative Party conference and came within feet of killing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Police are now satisfied that they have identified the man responsible for planting the bomb - Patrick Magee, aka the Chancer.
They just don’t know where he is.
Magee is back in Britain, planting a bomb in a hotel across the road from Buckingham Palace with an even longer timer fuse than the Brighton bomb. A police surveillance operation on another IRA suspect, meanwhile, leads to an unexpected result.
Written and presented by Glenn Patterson
Series Producer: Owen McFadden
Executive Producer Rachel Hooper
A Walk on Air production in association with Keo Films

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