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Miners strike - Vote to end overtime ban (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the result of a vote to end the overtime ban for miners and for workers to return to normal working conditions as the year long strike ends, to allow negotiation with the Coal Board over wages....
Miners strike - Miners head back to work (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Report on the National Executive Meeting where NUM protesters shouted at executives outside its headquarters and on miners returning to work as the strike draws to a bitter end. Includes vox pop with male...
No tax cuts and miners strike (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Conservative Party MP Cecil Parkinson on the unlikelihood of any tax cuts in the next Budget and the miners’ strike that has been ongoing for the past 11 months. Male interviewer not...
Kinnock on UK economy and miners strike (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on the UK economy, criticising Conservative Government economic policy following a House of Commons debate yesterday. And on debate on miners strike called by...
Thatcher on miners strike and economy (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s stance on the coal miners’ strike and the UK economy, with excerpts of interview. She is giving interviews to mark the tenth anniversary of being the head...
Neil Kinnock on London rate capping (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Interview
Report on Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock’s response to the newly instated rate capping law during a speech given to local London councillors. Speakers are Neil Kinnock and Lambeth Council (Labour) leader...
UK North-South divide (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Conservative MP Francis Pym. He says many people in the South (of England) are unaware of problems Northern workers are experiencing. Male interviewer not identified.
Implications of Clive Ponting case (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe about the legal and Parliamentary implications of the Clive Ponting case, where the use of the Official Secrets Act against civil servant Ponting was called...
Belgrano and Ponting affair (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on an upcoming Parliamentary debate on the Ponting affair and resignation of Clive Ponting from his senior civil servant position. Includes interview with Labour MP Tam Dalyell about the resignation...
Controversy of Belgrano sinking (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Labour MP Tam Dalyell about the controversial sinking of ARA General Belgrano during the Falklands war and subsequent cover-up claimed to be to safeguard intelligence work. Speaking prior to a...