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43 results found for all records.
Ken Livingstone Amsterdam visit (1984)
- Genre
- Debate; News report
Report on leader of the GLC Ken Livingstone’s visit to Amsterdam as a guest of the mayor Ed van Thijn, partly to build support as GLC faces abolition. Includes actuality from a public debate between the...
Ken Livingstone in Amsterdam (1984)
- Genre
- Debate; Interview; News report; Speech
Report on the visit to Amsterdam of Greater London Council leader, Ken Livingstone, for talks with the Amsterdam mayor about the proposed abolition of the GLC. Includes his introduction by Dutch journalist,...
GLC budget and rates debate (1984)
- Genre
- Debate; News report
Report on the Greater London Council (GLC) debate on the budget and rates (local taxes) cut put forward by the Labour majority, possibly the last one set forward before abolition of the authority. Speaking...
US presidential elections - Televised debate (1984)
- Genre
- Debate; News report
Andrew Manderstam reports on a televised debate between the eight Democratic candidates for the US presidential elections. In the run-up to the presidential elections, it is expected that President Ronald...
Ken Livingstone and Patrick Jenkin clash over GLC (1984)
- Genre
- Debate; News report
Jo Andrews reports on a debate between leader of the GLC Ken Livingstone and Environment Secretary Patrick Jenkin, at the Greater London Council headquarters at County Hall, in a debate over GLC abolition....
Evelyn Glenholmes affair (1986)
- Genre
- Debate
Attorney General Michael Havers is questioned by John Morris on the Evelyn Glenholmes affair (known IRA terrorist failed to be extradited from Ireland to the UK due to legal technicalities with the warrant).
US presidential election debate - Candidates’ closing speeches (1988)
- Genre
- Speech; Debate
Democrat and Republican candidates for the presidential election, Michael Dukakis and George Bush, deliver their closing remarks of the final televised debate of the election campaign. They touch on the...
Conservative conference - economics, crime and benefit fraud (1988)
- Genre
- Debate; News report; Speech
At the Conservative Party conference in Brighton, Energy Secretary, Cecil Parkinson announces that the coal industry will be privatised if the Tories are re-elected. In his law and order debate, Home...
British beef safe to eat (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Debate
Agriculture Minister John Gummer stresses to the Commons Agriculture Committee that British beef is safe to eat amid fears over BSE and responds to Conservative MP Paul Marland’s call for a lift on the...
Montage of Dan Quayle clips (1991)
- Genre
- Debate; Music; Speech
News montage centred around US Vice-President, Dan Quayle. Includes Quayle’s introduction (by President George H.W. Bush?) as Vice-President, a satirical song (I Spent the War in Indiana) by Bob and Tom,...