LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

NI documentary row

Genre

Press conference

TX Date

Jul 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:02:05

Description

Press conference with Home Secretary Leon Brittan about the controversial BBC documentary Real Lives: The Edge Of The Union, about the problems of political extremism in Northern Ireland, political pressure to ban its broadcast and the independence of the BBC. In the programme interviewees including Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein condone the use of violence.

Contributors

Leon Brittan

Keywords

Politics; Government; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; UK; Conservative Party; Violence; Censorship; BBC; Broadcasting; Freedom of the press; Mass media; Television programmes; Television documentaries; Leon Brittan; Martin McGuinness; Real Lives: The Edge Of The Union

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