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  • Storm damage (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop

    Oni Bhattacharya reports on the damage and disruption caused by hurricane force storms in South East England. Includes eyewitness accounts from Ralph Pooley, Raymond Jones and James Smith; comment from BT...

  • New British exhibition at the Tate Gallery (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Interview

    Nigel Dearing reports on the official launch of the new Tate Gallery exhibition of British art. Speakers are Director of the Tate Nicholas Serota and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

  • Prince Edward opens 14th Commonwealth games (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    George Matheson reports from the Mount Smart stadium, Auckland, New Zealand after Prince Edward officially opened the Commonwealth games amid fears of protests. Includes speech by Prince Edward opening the...

  • Bush facing opposition over China (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Nick Peters reports on US President George H W Bush facing opposition and a possible defeat in Congress over retaining relations with China despite human rights violations and on his words on the future of...

  • Terry Waite 3rd anniversary of capture (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Havovi Todd reports on a service in Waite’s local church at Blackheath marking the Archbishop of Canterbury’s special envoy Terry Waite’s 3rd year as a hostage in Lebanon. With comment from Colin...

  • Storm damage around the UK (1990)

    Genre
    News report

    Selection of reports from around the country on the damage caused by the recent hurricane force storms. Includes Howard Bennett from the West Midlands, Jane Soole from Somerset, Sally Johnson from South...

  • 14th Commonwealth games day one review (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    John Anderson reports from Auckland, New Zealand on the first day’s action from the Commonwealth games. Includes interviews with athletes Fatima Whitbread, Adrian Moorhouse and James Parrack.

  • Coleridge biography wins Whitbread Book of the Year (1990)

    Genre
    Biography; Interview; News report; Speech

    Camilla Affleck reports on Richard Holmes’s biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Coleridge: Early Visions - winning the Whitbread Book of the Year award. Includes Holmes reading from his book and talking...

  • Calls for resignation of Ron Brown MP (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Aileen(?) Taylor reports from Edinburgh on the controversial MP Ron Brown’s champagne celebrations outside of court after he was found guilty of criminal damage and on his local party calling for his...

  • Actor Gordon Kaye seriously ill after crash in storm (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    James Bays reports on comedy star Gordon Kaye being critically injured in London during the recent storms. With Nicholas Hunt, hospital spokesman on the actor’s condition and what the doctors are doing;...