What happens when a city faces a cell of fanatics with a single goal: to bring the maximum terror to the civilian population? Militant Islamists may be the current threat, but in 1974/5, the enemy was the Provisional IRA. Four men hiding out in London bedsits carried out over 40 separate incidents across the capital. The city and its people reeled under the impact of this sustained attack, but finally found the resolve to face the onslaught and defeat it.

Told through documentary, drama and first-hand accounts, this feature-length history special is a unique account of the most ruthless IRA bombing campaign ever to hit mainland Britain.

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Accompanying this fascinating and moving film is a full chronology of that fateful year, bringing all the events into ordered focus.

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