Max Pearson

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1,342 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Apr

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The History Hour · Blood diamonds and the meeting between Florence Nightingale and Aga Khan III · 28 Feb 2026 podcast

My wife was following the vote through the radio and through the TV.

And my daughter was at that time 18 months.

So immediately I thought on my family.

And I thought in my country that it was terrible to go back again to the dictatorship and to the military regime.

So at the beginning was this feeling that the democratic process was stopped by this coup d'etat.

and also that your life was possibly in danger?

Well, this was not sure at the beginning.

Indeed, there was a possibility to be killed by these guys.

There was a very, very terrible moment when, I don't know, 15, 20 minutes after they invaded, they called for the main political leaders and they brought them to a different room.

And we were not at all aware of what had happened with them.

The initial moments of the coup were caught in a radio broadcast, but soon the station was taken over by the Civil Guard and ordered to play military music.

The 350 MPs were now hostages.

I think we were asking for cigarettes.

At that time, many of us were still smokers.

This was the most important thing to have.

But I don't remember.

I think we haven't... Maybe water, but not any food.

And did you get cigarettes?

It was difficult.

At that time, I was a very, very strong smoker and I remember begging for a cigarette to some colleagues.

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