Results
28,816 results found for all records.
General Election - Conservative candidate on immigration (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male Conservative candidate in the 1983 General Election (poss. Harvey Proctor), on his controversial views on immigration and his alleged support for the National Front. Female interviewer not...
General Election - Party campaigns (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on campaigning by the three main political parties prior to the 1983 General Election. Includes excerpts from a speech in Edinburgh by Conservative leader and Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher;...
General Election - Party campaigns (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on campaigning in the UK 1983 General Election by the three main political parties. Speakers include: Labour leader Michael Foot (following newspaper reports predicting his resignation); Social...
General Election - Opinion polls (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Press conference; Interview
Peter Spencer reports on the results of the latest opinion polls, a week before the 1983 General Election. Speakers include: Roy Jenkins, Social Democratic Party leader; Cecil Parkinson, Conservative...
General Election - Michael Foot resignation rumours (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Richard Dallyn reports on rumours that Labour leader Michael Foot will resign after the forthcoming 1983 General Election; also on allegations about proposed Conservative privatisation of the National Health...
General Election - Employment policies (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Report on campaigning in the 1983 General Election with the main parties concentrating on the issue of unemployment. Speakers include Social Democratic Party president Shirley Williams; Chancellor, Sir...
General Election - Leaders’ wives on Europe (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; Discussion
Jill Craigie, wife of Labour leader Michael Foot, Elspeth Howe, wife of Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe, and Jennifer Jenkins, wife of Social Democratic Party leader Roy Jenkins, on the effect of the European...
Anniversary of Coronation (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker reminisces about the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, on the thirtierth anniversary of the occasion. Female interviewer not identified (poss. Gill Pyrah).
General Election - Denis Healey controversy (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on a pre-General Election controversy over remarks made by Labour deputy leader Denis Healey suggesting that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gloried in slaughter following Britain’s military...
General Election - Pensioners’ rights (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. Jack Jones) on representing the rights of pensioners in the 1983 General Election. Interviewer not heard.