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Kenneth Clarke on Health Service reforms (1989)
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- Interview
Health Secretary, Kenneth Clarke on the decision by general practitioners not to go ahead with a mass resignation over health reforms. He says the Government would like to hold discussions with the BMA over...
LSE students elect Winston Silcott as Honorary President (1989)
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- Interview; News report
Hannah O’Sullivan reports on London School of Economics students’ decision to support convicted killer Winston Silcott and elect him Honorary President. Speakers: Amanda Hart, General Secretary of LSE...
Paul Kennedy on world powers (1989)
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- Interview
British historian and author, Professor Paul Kennedy talks to Lawrie(?) Douglas about why he thinks great powers lose their greatness, the impact his book, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, has had in the...
Shirley Banks murder inquiry (1989)
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- Interview; News report
Kevin Mosley reports on the inquiry into Shirley Banks’s murder. Tony Harris, Shirley’s boss, talks about her not turning up for work. Diana Lamplugh, mother of missing Suzy Lamplugh, talks about helping...
Derek de Lint on his films (1989)
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- Interview
Dutch actor Derek de Lint talks about his roles in the British film, Stealing Heaven, and the American film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Dutch films; other Dutch actors, and whether the Dutch can...
First anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster (1989)
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- Interview
Furious offshore oil workers are calling for a twenty-four hour strike on the first anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. They say a stoppage on July the sixth would be a reminder to the Government...
Tyneside gunman charged (1989)
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- News report; Interview
A 22 year-old man has been charged in connection with shootings at Monkseaton on Tyneside. Robert Sarton will appear at North Shields Magistrates Court tomorrow. One man, Kenneth Macintosh(?), was killed,...
Britain in debate over short-range nuclear weapons (1989)
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- Interview
Britain has issued a strong warning that NATO has to stand firm on the need to modernise short-range nuclear weapons. The Defence white paper published today fires off a salvo at the West Germans who...
Murderer continues as president of LSE Students’ Union (1989)
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- Interview; News report
The man convicted of killing PC Keith Blakelock in the Tottenham riots is to remain as Honorary President of the Students’ Union at the London School of Economics. Most students voted to get rid of...
Risley Remand Centre riots (1989)
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- Interview
Home Secretary Douglas Hurd has called for an inquiry into rioting at Risley Remand Centre. Over fifty prisoners are still protesting on the roof following violence over the bank holiday. Inmates are...