Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast, This Week's Stories from Witness History from the BBC World Service, with me Myra Anoubi.

This week, a failed mission to the Moon.

Number of readings on several meters told me immediately we had lost

one oxygen tank. I immediately had just a sick feeling in my stomach because I

knew that that constituted an abort. One of the largest protests ever in Hong Kong.

You didn't know whether the government would step up and use rubber bullets or even real firearms

to be supposed to crowd.

You didn't know whether the next tenement square would happen in Hong Kong.

A giant athlete from Argentina, plus a 3,000 year old mummy who flew to France for a makeover. No one spoke, not even to whisper anything. It was very, very impressive. Even today I remember it like I was still there.

But first, let me tell you about a bar in Ireland, but not the kind you might be thinking.

Back in the 1970s, a law existed that banned married women from working in state jobs. It was called

the Marriage Bar and Ireland was one of the longest lasting in the world. Rachel Nela

spoke to a woman who postponed her wedding and became one of the first married women

to keep her job.

It's the 8th of December 1972 and were in Sligo, a town in the northwest of Ireland.

Bernie Hart, a 22 year old clerical officer at the council, has just got engaged to her boyfriend

Jimmy Flynn.

This would normally be caused the celebration.

But for a lot of women in 1970s Ireland, there was a catch.

If we got married, you had to leave your job.

You tendered your resignation and you were paid what was termed a marriage gratuity, which was in fact one month's salary for every year of service that you had.

It was part and parcel of our contract that we signed when we joined the service.

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