Jason Burke
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219 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Jason Burke’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They get caught almost immediately because they're not very good and they make a number of really basic errors.
They are sentenced to a three-year jail sentence.
On appeal, they're released, and they decide they're just going to go on the lam, basically, and they go on this big tour of France and Italy, get back to West Germany.
Barda gets caught again, and this time they decide they're going to bust him out of prison, or at least Enslin decides she's going to bust him out of prison.
And to do that, she calls on a number of other activists,
And this is really the moment where what is to become the Red Army Faction gels.
Well, the first thing that happens is they go off to Jordan to get supposedly to get trained and to get a bit of a break, to get away after this moment of breaking Barda out of prison.
And about a dozen very radical activists leave.
go out to Amman to find a Palestinian group called Fatah, which is Yasser Arafat's major organization.
And that was this extraordinary episode where they thought they were going to get trained in urban guerrilla warfare.
And it was a fiasco in the end because the cultural differences were just way too wide between their hosts and the visitors, the RAF.
They want to sleep literally and figuratively together, women and men in the same tents.
And their hosts are having none of this.
There are arguments over how much ammunition they can use.
Bader refuses to take his velvet trousers off on the assault course.
I mean, you could not make it up.
And in the end, they all end up back in West Germany.
And what they can do is bank robberies.
So they think they're going to get some funds through the bank robberies to launch their revolutionary war.
They do the bank robberies and some of them go wrong.
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