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Recap of Strangeways Prison riot (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Chris Roberts looks back on the twenty-five-day long Strangeways Prison riot and siege. The Reverend Noel Proctor, Prison Officers’ Association member John Bartell, Strangeways governor Brendan O’Friel,...
Train robber Charlie Wilson remembered (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Obituary
Retrospective on the life of Charlie Wilson, who took part in the Great Train Robbery, and who was shot dead last night in Marbella, Spain. Marbella journalist Chris Jones, fellow robber Ronnie Biggs, and...
Parliament votes on embryo testing (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Kevin Murphy reports on MPs’ vote (by a large majority in a free vote) to allow experiments on embryos for up to fourteen days after fertilisation. During the debate, Plaid Cymru’s Dafydd Wigley recalls...
American hostage Robert Polhill released from Lebanon (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
It has been revealed that American Robert Polhill is the one of three hostages being freed from Beirut. His son Brian Polhill comments. President George H. W. Bush turns people’s minds to the remaining...
Gruinard Island returned to residents (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
World War II has at last come to an end for a small island off the north-west corner of Scotland. Gruinard was requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence for wartime experiments in germ warfare, and has since...
Parliament debates abortion time limits (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Coverage of debate over abortion time limits. Health Minister, Virginia Bottomley; Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe; Labour MP Alice Mahon; Labour MP David Alton; Conservative MP Teresa Gorman; and Liberal...
Prince Charles launches Volunteers scheme (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales has launched a new volunteer scheme for young people, called Volunteers. He gives a speech at St James’s Palace, expressing concern for recent social unrest, and hopes to...
Margaret Thatcher remembers Gallipoli’s fallen (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; Music; News report
Hannah O’Sullivan reports on UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s visit to Gallipoli to pay tribute to three hundred thousand men who died there seventy-five years ago. Includes Thatcher’s reflections...
Inquiry into Strangeways Prison siege begins (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
James Matthews reports from Strangeways on the aftermath of the prison siege. Lord Justice (Harry) Woolf speaks to reporters at Strangeways about the inquiry he will lead. There is a speech by Strangeways’...
Salman Rushdie on BBC Radio 4, a year after death threat (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Philip Cottrell reports on an interview with novelist Salman Rushdie (includes excerpts) that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme a year after the death threat against him was announced in 1989....