Shell Shock - a podcast by BBC World Service

World War One veterans describe Shell Shock and Prof. Edgar Jones of Kings College on the psychiatric cost of war; plus Hungary's 1956 uprising, how French intelligence was rocked by the abduction of activist Mehdi Ben Barka, the history of Marvel Comics and London's Big Bang.

Photo: French troops shelter during bombardment, 1918. (General Photographic Agency/Getty Images)

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