Fergal Keane uncovers the roots of modern terrorism
Radio 4,Β·28 episodes
Has our response to terrorism changed since 1800? Fergal Keane ends his series.
Fergal Keane examines how the legal system has changed to tackle terrorism since 9/11.
Islamic fighters joined the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Fergal Keane gauges their impact.
Fergal Keane visits Israel to discover how suicide bombing changed society.
Beirut became a crucible of terrorism in the 1980s. Fergal Keane revisits the city.
Fergal Keane on the peace deal that brought the long conflict with the IRA to an end.
Fergal Keane visits Sri Lanka to reassess the suicide bombers of the Tamil Tigers.
Fergal Keane on the first stirrings of Islamic fundamentalist violence in Afghanistan.
Fergal Keane reveals how governments have used terrorists for their own ends.
The extraordinary history of Mossad, Israel's international security agency.
The Birth of Modern Terror
From the French Revolution to the First World War, Fergal Keane on the story of terrorism.
Terror Takes Control
Fergal Keane explores the rise in the power of terrorism in the post-war years.
The Internationalisation of Terror
Terror went global in the 1970s. Fergal Keane finds out why.
Fergal Keane considers the dilemma the ANC faced over the use of terrorist tactics.
Fergal Keane asks what made the Baader Meinhof Gang turn to terror in 1970s Germany.
Fergal Keane explores the British response to paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland.
Fergal Keane considers the career of Carlos the Jackal.
Fergal explores the airline hijackings of 1970 and meets Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled
Fergal Keane looks back on the 40-year struggle of the Basque separatists, ETA.
Fergal Keane looks at how the challenge of change ignited violence in Northern Ireland.
The Arab revolt against the French in Algeria is explored by Fergal Keane.
Fergal Keane considers Britain's counter terror techniques in Kenya and Malaya.
In 1947, a bomb in Whitehall brought the conflict in Palestine to British shores.
Fergal Keane on the British promises in WWI that provoked conflict in the Middle East.
Fergal visits Sarajevo to consider the legacy of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
Fergal Keane meets the anarchists who petrified the genteel society of the 1890s.
Fergal Keane tells the story of the first terrorist bombing campaign in Britain.
Paris, 1800. Napoleon Bonaparte is caught by the blast from an enormous cart bomb.
