LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

General election - Norman Tebbit on BBC phone call

Genre

Press conference; Speech

TX Date

2 Jun 1987

Year of production

1987

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Duration

00:02:02

Description

Press conference with Conservative Party chairman Norman Tebbit on reports that he had made a late-night telephone call to Marmaduke Hussey, Chairman of the BBC, to prevent Cecil Parkinson being dropped from the BBC’s Breakfast Time programme, prior to the 1987 General Election. Includes intervention from Margaret Thatcher.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Norman Tebbit

Keywords

Elections; Conservative Party; BBC; Political parties; General elections; Cecil Parkinson; Election campaigns; Breakfast Time

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