Hurd visits Handsworth after riots
- Title
- Hurd visits Handsworth after riots
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference; Vox pop
- TX Date
- Sep 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:04:36
- Description
- Report from the scene of the Handsworth riots in Birmingham in 09/85. Includes a press interview with Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, on a visit to the area; views of female residents. Female reporter not identified. Helicopter heard in background.
- Contributors
- Douglas Hurd
- Keywords
- Interethnic relations; Police; Violence; Adolescents; Birmingham; Riots; Assault; Handsworth; Cabinet ministers; Violence against the person; Douglas Hurd
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LBC/IRN, "Hurd visits Handsworth after riots". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0012600168015 (Accessed 09 May 2025)