Nurse Daphne Parish speaks on her return to UK
- Title
- Nurse Daphne Parish speaks on her return to UK
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
- TX Date
- 18 Jul 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:02:08
- Description
- Nurse Daphne Parish speaks for the first time following her return to the UK. Parish was imprisoned in Iraq with journalist Farzad Bazoft on suspicion of espionage. President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda was central in persuading the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein to release her, but Parish told the press not to criticise the Foreign Office. Havovi Todd reports.
- Contributors
- Daphne Parish; Havovi Todd
- Keywords
- UK; British; Zambia; Espionage; Imprisonment; Diplomacy; Presidents; Executions; Prisoners; Journalists; Foreign Office; Iraq; Kenneth Kaunda; Saddam Hussein; Daphne Parish; Farzad Bazoft
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LBC/IRN, "Nurse Daphne Parish speaks on her return to UK". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0006600423015 (Accessed 17 Jun 2025)