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Queen Mother portrait (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Simon Bowden interviews artist Alison Watt, about her new portrait of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, which is due to be unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in London coinciding with the Queen...
Queen Mother’s birthday (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop
Simon Bowden reports on Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s eighty-ninth birthday. Includes bagpipe music; interviews with Grace Crook, Royal Britain Exhibition; Anthony Holden, royal biographer; members...
Hurd on crack campaign (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, on Government proposals to fight the spread of crack, the deadly cocaine-based drug. Hurd says the Government will be embarking on an intensive campaign in local...
Beatles recordings auctioned (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Clive Myrie reports on an auction of tapes of The Beatles at Sotheby’s in London. The recordings consisted of the group singing in hotel rooms and in the back of their car and belong to their former...
Man dies in Paddington bomb blast (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Simon Bowden reports on a bomb blast and resulting fire at the Beverley House Hotel in Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London, where a man died. Detectives believe the man who died was a terrorist involved in an...
Man dies in Paddington bomb blast (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Oni Bhattacharya reports on a bomb blast and resulting fire at the Beverley House Hotel in Sussex Gardens, Paddington, London, where a man died. Detectives believe the man who died was a terrorist involved...
Man dies in Paddington bomb blast-eyewitness account (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with the male manager (not identified) of the Queen’s House? Hotel in Paddington - eyewitness to a bomb blast and resulting fire at the Beverley House Hotel in Sussex Gardens, London, where a man...
Shi’ite group suspends US hostage Cicippio’s execution (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference; Speech
Nick Peters reports from Washington DC, on relief in the United States, when the captors of Joseph Cicippio lifted their death threat against him. Cicippio is being held in Beirut by a Shi’ite terrorist...
China protest in London (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Simon Bowden reports on the erection in London of a replica of the student symbol of protest that was torn down by the Chinese army in Beijing. The plaster statue was erected outside the Chinese embassy in...
Lebanese hostage crisis-US reaction (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
Paul Woodley reports on US reaction to the hostage situation in the Lebanon following the killing of hostage Colonel William R. Higgins. Includes interviews with Peggy Say, sister of hostage journaslist...