Results
28,816 results found for all records.
General election - Thatcher rallies workers (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visits Conservative Party headquarters to rally party workers for the forthcoming general election. Industry Secretary Patrick Jenkin has said an economic recovery is still...
General election - Labour Party manifesto (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified Scottish male politician (poss. Communist Party) comments on the Labour Party manifesto. Female interviewer not identified.
General election - Unemployment as campaign issue (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on unemployment. Labour deputy leader Denis Healey has accused the Thatcher government of sourcing a misleading unemployment report in 1981. Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit discounted the...
General election - Inflation, prices, jobs (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe has said there is no reason to expect inflation figures to go up this year. Labour leader Denis Healey is sceptical about the forecast, saying that there is no inflation in a...
General election - Thatcher on cost of living (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher goes shopping in the supermarket and chats with pensioners. She tells reporters that food prices went up by 122 percent towards the end of the Labour Government but remained...
General election - Thatcher on prospects (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher tells the people of Cornwall that she thinks the Conservatives have a reasonable chance of forming the government again. Labour Party leader Michael Foot talks about his...
General election - Party leaders on prospects (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the various political parties’ chances of success in the next general election. Includes interviews with and comment from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (interviewed by Peter Allen); Labour...
Shergar kidnap (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Lord Oaksey (John Oaksey) of the Sunday Telegraph, one of three London racing journalists, including Derek Thompson and Peter Campling, contacted by the kidnappers of the racehorse Shergar...
Shergar kidnap (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the confusion following the kidnap of the multi-million pound racehorse Shergar from the Aga Khan’s Ballymany stud farm in County Kildare, Ireland. Includes interviews with two of the three...
Police progress on Shergar kidnap (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Chief Superintendent James Murphy on the progress of the police inquiry three days after the kidnap of the racehorse Shergar from the Aga Khan’s Ballymany stud farm in County Kildare,...