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Pakistani President dies in plane crash (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified speaker on regime of Pakistan’s President Zia after his death in a suspicious plane crash. He describes it as a military dictatorship shored up by the USA. He has a bleak view of the future of...
Businessman attempts to break flight record (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Millionaire businessman, 49 year-old Vijaypat Singhania, speaking moments before attempting a record-breaking flight in a microlight aircraft from London to Ahmedabad, India. Comment from current record...
Scotland Yard releases Jack the Ripper material (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Scotland Yard have released material allegedly sent by infamous London serial killer Jack the Ripper. Sent anonymously to a Croydon, South London police station, Ripper-related items include a letter, post...
UNITA leader, Jonas Savimbi on Angolan Civil War (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Tony Banks, senior reporter for Jane’s Defence Weekly, interviews Jonas Savimbi, an anti-communist rebel leader of UNITA, on the Angolan Civil War.
The night is young (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Carol Allen interviews Bridget Fonda on The Night is Young, about her new film, Shag, her family and the acting dynasty to which she belongs.
UN Secretary General on Geneva visit and Red Cross aid (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
United Nations Secretary General, Javier Perez de Cuellar, who will travel to Geneva to implement the UN ceasefire resolution in regard to the Iran-Iraq War, says the International Red Cross will help in the...
Ken Maginnis on 7 dead in Army bus bomb (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Kenneth Maginnis, on the bomb planted under an unmarked Army bus which killed 7 soldiers and injured 29 others as they returned from a charity fun run. Maginnis was one of...
Douglas Hogg on the relaxation of afternoon licensing (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Emma Udwin interviews Home Office Minister, Douglas Hogg about the relaxation of pub licensing laws which will result in the abolition of the compulsory closing hour during weekday afternoons.
Death of Chris Gittins (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Obituary
Chriss Gittins, who played Walter Gabriel in the Radio 4 soap opera, The Archers, died yesterday, aged 86. Report includes an archive recording of Gittins outside Buckingham Palace in 1984, after collecting...
Afghan-Pakistani relations unaffected by death of president (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
John Alcock interviews Vice-President of the Afghan Alliance, Dr Zabiullah Mujadidi, at the funeral of Pakistani President, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. He says he expects Pakistani-Afghan relations to be unaffected...