Warning: This episode contains distressing details throughout.

Over two decades, legendary camera operator Peter Wilkinson filmed footage of the Troubles in Northern Ireland that shocked the world.

The long and bloody conflict, which claimed thousands of lives, came to another horrific climax in 1988, when two British Army corporals, David Howes and Derek Wood, were beaten, dragged from their car, and later taken away and executed by the IRA.

They had inadvertently driven into a funeral cortege for another IRA member Kevin Brady, who had been shot dead in another funeral attack by militant loyalist Michael Stone days earlier.

The footage Peter Wilkinson captured of the incident was soon broadcast around the country - but it came so close to never seeing the light of day.

After the incident, the IRA confronted him and asked him to hand over the tape containing the footage. He took a tape out of his camera, and handed it to them. Little did they know, it was a fake - and he had smuggled the real one in his underwear. He recalls their chilling words: ‘If the footage isn’t on here, we know exactly who you are, and we’ll get you’.

But this is far from the first time Peter risked everything to capture historic footage of the Troubles.

Peter joins Reporting History to talk for the first time about his time in Northern Ireland across two decades, and reveals what he saw on Bloody Sunday, Bloody Friday, the Europa hotel bombing, and a firefight on the streets in 1973.

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