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May 1968 Paris Riots

A French riot policeman's view of the violence in May 1968; plus a Broken Arrow, the origins of Montessori education, the Dambusters' raid and Jane Asher on Look Back in Anger.

A French riot policeman's view of the violence that swept through France in May 1968; plus the man who led a team that made safe two nuclear weapons that had crashed to ground in the US. Also, the origins of Montessori education, one of the airmen on the Dambusters' raid and actor Jane Asher remembers John Osborne's radical 1950s play, Look Back in Anger.

Photo: Protesters face police in front of the Joseph Gibert bookstore, Boulevard Saint Michel in May 1968. (Credit: Jacques Marie/AFP/Getty Images)

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Sun 20 May 2018 23:06GMT
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