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Blowing up Paradise

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Ben Lewis (The King of Communism, Art Safari), traces the strange history of French atomic tests in the South Pacific from the 1960s to the 90s - a story of liberty, equality and radioactivity.

Thousands of Polynesian islanders were transformed from fishermen into nuclear technicians and Greenpeace activists sailed a tiny yacht into the test zone to end atmospheric testing.

The film also shows how a tiny group of Tahitian radicals set up the world's only anti-nuclear resistance cell and how some former test workers from France and Tahiti now suffer from cancers that many believe are linked to fall-out from the tests.

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Season 2005
S2005E01 - How To Sleep Better
1 February 2005
S2005E02 - Blowing up Paradise
16 March 2005
S2005E03 - Gauguin: The Full Story
19 April 2005
S2005E04 - The Copenhagen Fallout
13 June 2005
S2005E05 - Hiroshima
8 August 2005
S2005E06 - Britpop Story
16 August 2005
S2005E07 - The Other Side of Dunkirk
16 August 2005
S2005E08 - Genghis Khan
5 April 2005
S2005E09 - The Life and Times of El Niño
30 November 2005
S2005E10 - Michelangelo: A Film
20 December 2005
S2005E11 - The Selfish Green
17 March 2005
S2005E12 - An Islamic History of Europe
7 April 2005
S2005E13 - Stuart Sutcliffe: The Lost Beatle
12 December 2005
S2005E16 - James May's Top Toys
21 December 2005
S2005E17 - Live Aid - Rockin' All Over The World
18 June 2005
S2005E18 - Live Aid - Against All Odds
18 June 2005
S2005E19 - The Beach Boys: Wouldn't It Be Nice
9 January 2005
S2005E20 - The Unknown Hancock
26 December 2005
S2005E21 - The Story of Fairytale of New York
19 December 2005
S2005E22 - Rankin on the Staircase
15 July 2005
S2005E23 - Death on the Staircase: The Aftermath
17 July 2005
S2005E24 - Crumpet: A Very British Sex Symbol
28 December 2005
S2005E25 - Spivs
24 October 2005
S2005E26 - John Wyndham: The Invisible Man of Science Fiction
15 October 2005
S2005E27 - The Body of Marilyn Monroe
17 August 2005
S2005E28 - How Vietnam Was Lost
4 December 2005
S2005E30 - The Story of the Ghost Story
18 December 2005
S2005E31 - How We Fell For Europe
4 June 2005
S2005E32 - Inky Fingers: The NME Story
4 July 2005
S2005E33 - The Fall: The Wonderful and Frightening World of…
21 January 2005
S2005E34 - Ivor Cutler: Looking for Truth with a Pin
15 April 2005
S2005E35 - Deer in the City
9 November 2005
S2005E36 - Sun Ra: The Brother from Another Planet
28 October 2005
S2005E37 - Brothers in Arms
2 May 2005
S2005E38 - Clear The Skies: 9/11 Air Defense
18 October 2005
S2005E39 - Namibia Genocide and the Second Reich
15 August 2005
S2005E40 - The Story of 1
28 September 2005
S2005E41 - California Dreamin': The Songs of The Mamas & the…
1 March 2005
S2005E42 - The Secret Life of Arthur Ransome
17 September 2005
S2005E43 - VJ Heroes Scotland's Jungle War
13 August 2005
S2005E45 - Nelson's Trafalgar
22 June 2005
S2005E46 - Richard the Lionheart and Saladin: Holy Warriors
26 March 2005
S2005E47 - 25 Years of the Comedy Store - A Personal History…
11 January 2005
S2005E48 - The Magic Factory - Alton Towers
23 March 2005
S2005E49 - After the War: Churchill's Defeat
24 August 2005
S2005E50 - Churchill's Forgotten Years
1 September 2005
S2005E51 - Ian Fleming: Bondmaker
28 August 2005
S2005E52 - The Owls and the Orchard
23 November 2005
S2005E53 - The Avengers Revisited
10 November 2005
S2005E54 - Cold War, Dirty Science
19 October 2005
S2005E55 - Ebony Towers: The Black Intelligentsia
7 March 2005
S2005E56 - The Somme
14 November 2005
S2005E57 - Conan Doyle for the Defence
25 December 2005
S2005E58 - The Improbable Mr. Atlee
10 January 2005
S2005E59 - We Have Ways of Making You Talk
5 April 2005
S2005E61 - Shepperton Babylon
11 August 2005
S2005E62 - And It's Goodnight from Him: a Tribute to Ronnie…
29 December 2005
S2005E63 - Searle's Progress
8 October 2005
S2005E64 - Science and the Seance
31 August 2005
S2005E65 - Doris Day - Virgin Territory
8 November 2005
S2005E66 - Heysel: Requiem for a Cup Final
17 April 2005
S2005E67 - What's Going On: the Life and Death of Marvin Gaye
10 July 2005
S2005E68 - 55 Days - The Fall of Saigon
6 May 2005
S2005E69 - Victoria Wood: A Bafta Tribute
5 February 2005
S2005E70 - 18 With a Bullet
10 January 2005
S2005E71 - The Rabbits of Skomer
2 November 2005
S2005E72 - End Day
21 April 2005
S2005E73 - We Want the Light: Jews and German Music
29 January 2005
S2005E74 - Don't Panic About Christmas Shopping
22 December 2005
S2005E75 - Michael Palin and the Mystery of Hammershoi
12 July 2005

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