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Tom King on IRA funeral attack (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Northern Ireland Secretary, Tom King, appealing for calm and condemning the violence after the attacks on the funeral of three alleged IRA terrorists at Milltown Cemetary in Belfast. Supports...
Reactions to IRA funeral attack (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on reaction to a gun and grenade attack on the funeral of the three alleged IRA terrorists at the Milltown Cemetary in Belfast. Three people were killed and more than fifty injured. Includes interview...
Interview with captive (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with male speaker (not identified), about being held captive in a foreign country (also not identified). Female reporter not identified. The captive may be James Abra who was held in Libya on...
Neil Kinnock on NHS (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; Press conference
Press interview with Labour Party leader, Neil Kinnock, on Government underfunding in the NHS. Coincides with the fortieth anniversary of the National Health Service.
Clergy suicide inquest (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Ben Brown reports from Oxford on the inquest into the suicide of the Reverend Dr Gareth Bennett, anonymous author of the Crockford’s Clerical Directory preface which attacked the heirarchy of the Church of...
Terror attack at funerals of Gibraltar IRA men (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Male eyewitness account of shootings and explosions among the crowd of mourners at the funerals of the three IRA men shot in Gibraltar, at Belfast’s Milltown Cemetery.
Percy Thrower obituary (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; Obituary
Obituary by Rodney Bennett of the gardening broadcaster Percy Thrower, for more than forty years the leading face and voice of British gardening on television and radio, including on LBC’s AM programme...
Nurses raise money for Third World charities (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Report by Court correspondent Dickie Arbiter on Britain’s nurses raising money for three charities for the Third World: War on Want, Oxfam and the Save the Children Fund. SCF President Princess Anne on...
British soldiers killed at IRA funeral (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the murder by an IRA mob of two British soldiers, Bob Howes and Derek Wood, caught up in the funeral cortege in Andersonstown, Belfast for Kevin Brady, an IRA member killed while attempting to...
Sinn Fein reaction to British soldiers killed at IRA funeral (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Sinn Fein spokesman Danny Morrison’s reaction to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Tom King’s statement on the murder by an IRA mob of two British soldiers Bob Howes and Derek Wood, caught up in...