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32 results found for '"Nigel Wrench"' in Contributors.

  • Winnie Mandela archive material (1985)

    Genre
    Interview; Special; Technical

    Nigel Wrench introduces two archive cuts featuring Winnie Mandela, wife of jailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela, where she is interviewed by Mike Hanna. The recordings includes brief biographical information on...

  • Sir Geoffrey Howe and African leaders (1986)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    News report on relations between African political leaders. Includes excerpts of Zambian press interview with UK Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, who talks about Presidents Kaunda and Botha, and his...

  • Increased media restrictions in South Africa (1986)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Nigel Wrench reports on increased media restrictions in South Africa. Includes interview with Weekly Mail editor Anton Harber(?). Also on the commemoration of the Battle of Blood River - the so-called Day of...

  • P. W. Botha unveils plans at new session of parliament (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Nigel Wrench reports from Johannesburg on the opening of a new session of parliament in South Africa. Includes speech by President P. W. Botha, in which he threatens to neutralise opponents who undermine...

  • Cape Town anti-apartheid march leads to arrest of Tutu (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Nigel Wrench reports on an anti-apartheid march against the state by churches in Cape Town, South Africa, including recordings of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s service at St George’s Cathedral that...

  • Desmond Tutu calls for break in diplomatic relations with South Africa (1988)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Nigel Wrench reports on South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s call on Western governments to cut diplomatic relations with South Africa as anti-apartheid action. Including interview with Tutu at his...

  • Death of Alan Paton (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Obituary

    South African writer Alan Paton died this morning at the age of eighty-five of cancer at his home near Durban. He was best known as the author of Cry, the Beloved Country, first published forty years...

  • Archbishop Desmond Tutu attacked on South African radio (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Nigel Wrench reports from Johannesburg, where Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been the target of a sharp attack on the South African state-run radio. Archbishop Tutu is nearing the end of a lengthy trip to...

  • Church anti-apartheid rally in Soweto (1988)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    Nigel Wrench reports from a mass rally in Soweto where church leaders gave fiery anti-apartheid speeches. Follows a 2-day meeting by South African church leaders deciding to form a national committee to work...

  • Nelson Mandela 70th birthday concert (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Nigel Wrench reports from Johannesburg on reaction by the South African Government to the Nelson Mandela 70th birthday pop concert at Wembley Stadium, London and decision by the BBC to broadcast the event;...