Balcombe Street siege
- Title
- Balcombe Street siege
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- Feb 1977
- Year of production
- 1977
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- Duration
- 00:14:43
- Description
- Peter Spencer reports on the IRA Balcombe Street siege (1975) and other terrorist attacks by the organisation after the end of the resulting trial in 1977. Interviews with Edward Heath MP (by Julian Manyon); Commander Roy Habershon, Bomb Squad; Hilton bomb witness (by Peter Murphy); hospital doctor; patient of bomb victim Professor Gordon Hamilton Fairley; Rhodes Boyson MP on Ross McWhirter, author who was gunned down; unidentified police officer; includes Jon Snow reporting from the scene at end of siege.
- Contributors
- Edward Heath; Peter Spencer; Peter Murphy; Rhodes Boyson; Jon Snow; Roy Habershon; Julian Manyon
- Keywords
- London; Terrorism; IRA; Sieges; Ross McWhirter; Martin O’Connell; Edward Butler; Harry Duggan; Hugh Doherty; Gordon Hamilton Fairley
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