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  • Neil Kinnock on European socialism (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Speech

    Labour leader Neil Kinnock was in Paris yesterday, speaking at a rally of socialists from all over Europe ahead of the European elections. He used his speech to highlight the divides in the Conservative...

  • Abbey National flotation (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    The Abbey National flotation on the stock market will get under way in just over a week as expected, despite fears of a last-minute hitch. The Building Societies Commission (BSC) today gave the Abbey the...

  • Rosy Kempston with Lloyd Webber (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Britain’s best known cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber, is selling one of his most prized possessions to help pay for his divorce. The 18th-century Guadagnini cello is due to be auctioned at Sotheby’s on...

  • Tim Marshall on new D-Day memorial (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    The Queen Mother has joined in celebrations marking the forty-fifth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy by unveiling a stained glass window in the eleventh-century Bayeux Cathedral. As Tim...

  • Steve Jones show (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Linda Thorson, who played Tara King in The Avengers, joins Steve Jones for a chat about her career and her life in America. She discusses her son, whom she believes should be educated in England rather than...

  • Orchid thief jailed (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    An Old Bailey judge has jailed an orchid grower, because of his obsessive plundering of rare flowers from the jungles of the world. Thirty-seven-year-old Henry Azadehdel admitted smuggling, harbouring,...

  • John Edmonds on Labour Party reform (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with John Edmonds, General Secretary of the General, Municipal and Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union supporting Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock’s drive to modernise the Labour Party...

  • Kenneth Clarke on the NHS (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke says he is very encouraged that more than 200 NHS hospital and other health units are interested in becoming self-governing. Des Fahy reports.

  • Tom King on Shorts takeover (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    The Belfast aircraft and missile firm, Shorts has been sold to a Canadian company. Ulster Secretary Tom King confirmed today that the Belfast planemakers has been bought into private hands by the...

  • Steve Jones show (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News bulletin; Advertisement; Trailer

    Steve Jones’s guest today is actress Miriam Karlin, currently starring in a new play at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. It is by Vincent Foxall and is called, Down Every Street. Clip includes commercial...