London, April 1980. Six armed men storm the Iranian Embassy in South Kensington, taking 26 people hostage and sparking a terrifying siege that will grip the nation.
As armed police surround the building and negotiators desperately try to secure the hostages' release, tensions mount and the world watches.
In Part One of this two-part special, we explore how the siege began, who was behind it and how an ordinary spring morning in London became the start of one of Britain's most extraordinary hostage crises.
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