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17 results found for '"Modern history"' in Keywords.
Towards 2000 (1977)
- Genre
- Speech
Towards 2000. Field Marshal Michael Carver soliloquises on the future defence of Europe and various possible scenarios for the remainder of the 20th Century. Carver discusses Britain’s role in European...
Massey’s Chop House menu found (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with the manager (not identified) of Massey’s Chop House in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge, London, after recent building works uncovered an original restaurant menu from 1958. The establishment...
Northern Ireland parties and factions (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Discussion of the background to the different republican and loyalist political and terrorist groups and factions in Northern Ireland and in the Irish Republic. Both male speakers not identified. Audio...
Modern Turkish state (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Eyeshen(?) Guvener(?), the wife of the First Counsellor at the Turkish embassy in London, on the importance of the army to the Turkish people and on the background to the modern Turkish state...
Our kind of town (1980)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview; Music
Our Kind of Town, presented by Keith Howell. This episode focuses on the history of Kentish Town, and spiritualist bookselling. Journalist, Gillian Tindall, author of The Fields Beneath, says transport was...
After eight special (1980)
- Genre
- Feature; Special
This After Eight special, I Have to Tell You Now, investigates the outbreak of the Second World War. Includes archive audio of speech by Adolf Hitler, news broadcast on Germany’s invasion of Poland and UK...
Jill Craigie on women’s liberation movement (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Jill Craigie, wife of Labour Party leader Michael Foot about the women’s liberation movement (which she has been writing a book on) and the role of women now including her own. Male...
Marconi transatlantic broadcast 80th anniversary (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Special
Report on the 80th anniversary and celebrations of the first transatlantic broadcast by Marconi. Includes morse code example; Ron Legerden(?) re-enacting the broadcast, speaking in Cornwall to Newfoundland...
Watergate affair - Tenth anniversary (1982)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on the tenth anniversary of the Watergate affair in the USA. Speakers include White House worker G. Gordon Liddy and disgraced former president Richard Nixon. Male reporter not identified. Clip starts...
Cabinet War Rooms restoration (1982)
- Genre
- News report; Special; Speech
Report on the restoration of the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall, London - used to plot the UK military campaign and run the country during the Second World War. Includes archive recording of Prime Minister...