Monday evenings from 8 to 9pm BBC Four television is airing a series on the history of Britain. It comes highly recommended.
'Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain' dealt this week with life in Britain in the 1960s and '70s.
This week Andrew Marr was most critical of Harold Wilson and his political machinations.
The programme also covered the events of Bloody Sunday when unarmed the British Army opened fire and shot dead innocent people.
Marr stressed that Roy Jenkins was the UK's most liberal Home Secretary.
He told of how there was a board in the Home Secretary's office, which named those who were about to be executed by hanging.
Jenkins removed the board from his office and was instrumental in removing capital punishment from the Statute Book.
Capital punishment was abolished in 1969 and in Northern Ireland in 1973.
The killing of another person is wrong. Obviously, there are occasions when it is permitted, self-defence being an example.
On this day, May 27, 1942 in Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich was wounded in an ambush in Prague. He died eight days later.
Surely Prague and the world was a better place without this man, who had inflicted unspeakable crimes.
At the time of his death he was acting Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia. He had been sent to Prague to enforce Nazi policy.
Heydrich played an influential role at the infamous Wannsee Conference, where plans for the 'Final Solution' were decided.
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