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6 results found for '"Penguin"' in Keywords.
Kay Webb on working life (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Kay Webb is interviewed about her life and in particular her working life. She was editor of Puffin Books between 1961 and 1979, and in 1967 founded the Puffin Club, which is talked about in detail. As a...
Graham Bound on UN Falklands resolution (1982)
- Genre
- Interview
Graham Bound, editor of Falklands newspaper, The Penguin News, on a United Nations resolution calling for negotiations over the sovereignty of the islands after the end of hostilities between the UK and...
Salman Rushdie fatwa (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Paul Woodley reports on Salman Rushdie’s decision not to go on an American book promotion tour after having a price put on his head by Muslim leaders over the blasphemy to Islam in his book The Satanic...
Bomb attack on York bookshop (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Paul Kenyon reports on a bomb attack at a bookshop in York. Police have revealed the device went off before the alarm was raised through ITN, and a major disaster was only averted by the prompt action of...
Muslims protest against Rushdie book (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Muslim groups are holding a week of demonstrations over Salman Rushdie’s book, The Satanic Verses, outside the headquarters of the publishers Viking Penguin in London. The book is shortly expected to...
Salmon Rushdie not in violation of blasphemy laws (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
The British Muslim Action Front claimed that author Salman Rushdie and his publishers should face criminal charges for blasphemy against the Muslim faith for his novel The Satanic Verses, but Lord Justice...