LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Nightline special

Genre

Discussion; Talk show; Special

TX Date

19 Aug 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:47:15

Description

Part of a Nightline special programme with link-up a month after the end of the war with the Falkland Islands Broadcasting Station. In Port Stanley presenter Patrick Watts and studio panel of Graham Bound, editor of local newspaper Penguin News; shopkeeper Tony Chater; hotel proprietor Margaret Davidson; legislative councillor Terry Peck. In the LBC studio presenter Dan Damon with Lord Shackleton (Edward Shackleton) who recently updated for Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher his report on the economic development of the islands; and Guardian diplomatic correspondent Patrick Keatley. Live studio discussion of the report, present conditions on the islands, and their future governance and economic prospects. With Falkland Islands news bulletins. Audio quality poor in sections broadcast from Falklands.

Contributors

Patrick Keatley; Dan Damon; Edward Shackleton; Tony Chater; Patrick Watts; Terry Peck; Graham Bound; Margaret Davidson; Falkland Islands Broadcasting Station

Keywords

Reports; Economic systems; Future developments; Colonial countries; Falklands War (1982); Argentina; Falkland Islands; Sovereignty; Governance; Port Stanley

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