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Richard Gordon reports on union talks on North Sea oil workers (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Richard Gordon reports on union talks with (unofficially) striking North Sea oil workers. Report looks at the workers’ wives trying to hand over a petition to BP in Glasgow, their discussion with company...
Yusuf Islam calls for all non-Muslim forces to be withdrawn from the Gulf (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Sophie Dekker reports on how Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) has visited the London embassies of countries involved in the Gulf conflict with a delegation claiming to represent British Muslims....
Lord Denning on capital punishment (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Lord Denning (Tom Denning) defends his controversial remarks about the Birmingham Six, Guildford Four, and EEC Commissioner Leon Brittan, published in the Spectator magazine. Female interviewer not identified.
Saddam Husseinâs open letter to the USA (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
James Matthews reports from Jordan on the open letter from Saddam Hussein that brands US President George Bush a liar. He tells how the families of British military advisers being held in a Baghdad hotel...
Mohammed Fayyaz on Salman Rushdie film ban (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
The ban on a controversial film which depicts author Salman Rushdie as a drunkard who murders Muslims has been lifted by the Video Appeals Committee. The Pakistani film International Guerrillas was banned by...
Iraqi Ambassador on Britons in Kuwait (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
The Iraqi Ambassador to London, Dr Azmi Shafiq Al-Salihi, insists that the British citizens trapped in Iraq are being well treated, that they are not hostages, and that they will be allowed to leave when the...
North Sea oil offshore safety (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
As the fifth 24-hour stoppage in 17 days hits Britain’s North Sea oil industry this morning, relatives and survivors of the 1988 Piper Alpha tragedy have been expressing their support for the striking...
Briton tells of escape from Kuwait (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Patricia Maine(?) of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, tells how she and her family escaped from Iraq-occupied Kuwait. She talks about the conditions there, the movement of chemical weapons, violence towards...
Gerald Kaufman on the Kuwait crisis (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Gerald Kaufman, Shadow Foreign Secretary, says the Government should be absolutely certain of the facts before making announcements, what it should be doing now, the need to work with other nations to get...
Press conference with British escapee from Kuwait (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Medical technician Peter Bunting from Nottingham, one of the last workers to flee Iraq-occupied Kuwait, talks about finding a route across the desert to the Saudi border. Interview (by unidentified female,...