The History Hour
The History Hour
BBC World Service
Dickey Chapelle - War Reporter
50 minutes Posted Nov 5, 2016 at 9:00 am.
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On this week's programme, how pioneering American woman war reporter, Dickey Chapelle, was killed in Vietnam; plus two very different perspectives on Mao's China, Mexican writer Octavio Paz and the escape which made Harry Houdini's name.

PHOTO: Dickey Chapelle during a US Marines operation in 1958 (Credit: US Marine Corps / Associated Press)