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World Service,17 Mar 2018,50 mins

The Battle of the Airwaves in Latin America

The History Hour

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Why the BBC started broadcasting to South and Central America, plus the My Lai Massacre, Brazil's careful transition to democracy, and Moscow's show trials in the 1930s. Photo: Members of the BBC's Brazil service rehearsing in a London studio in 1943. Credit: BBC.

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