LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Douglas Hogg on crack visit

Genre

Interview

TX Date

24 May 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:28

Description

Kevin Murphy interviews Home Office minister Douglas Hogg about a visit to Washington DC in the USA where he will tour areas blighted by the crack cocaine trade. Hogg will also visit a hospital unit treating babies addicted to crack through their mothers’ dependency, and see problems in Miami, and Nassau in the Bahamas. The visit is intended to find solutions to apply to the UK. Broadcast on the LBC AM programme.

Contributors

Douglas Hogg; Kevin Murphy

Keywords

USA; Members of Parliament; Drugs; Illegal drugs; Cocaine; Politicians; Cabinet ministers; Washington DC

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