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  • Rosemary Aberdour charged with theft from charity (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on the case of Rosemary Aberdour, also known as the self-styled Lady Rosemary, who has been charged with stealing 1.7m pounds from the National Hospital Development Foundation hospital charity....

  • Body of woman found in car (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Special; Vox pop

    Report on the murder of Penelope Bell on Bakers Wood near Denham after her body was found in her car. Speakers are local Neil Bernstein; Detective Superintendent Brian Edwards; and her builder, Don...

  • Conservative Europe disagreement (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on Prime Minister John Major’s battle with the Conservative Party over Europe, and conflict within the Tory Party. Speakers are Sir Geoffrey Howe; Tory MP John Carlisle; Tory MP Anthony...

  • Birkenhead candidate selection controversy (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Vox pop

    Report on the controversial Labour Party Parliamentary candidate selection victory Frank Field at Birkenhead after using underhand tactics including claiming people were involved with Militant Tendency....

  • British prisoner Douglas Brand released from Iraq (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Report on the release of Briton Douglas Brand, an engineer and former SBS operative, captured and held in an Iraqi prison for 9 months on espionage charges alongside fellow Briton Ian Richter, after the...

  • Berlin voted in as German capital city (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Vox pop

    Report on the decision to make Berlin the capital of a reunited Germany, over Bonn. Car horns heard. Local Berliners give their reaction to the victory, which was put to a vote amongst the German people....

  • Fire kills mother and children in Ayrshire (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on a house fire in Kilbirnie, Ayrshire in which a mother and five of her children perished (Juanita Dunlop, 27, and Diane, 11, Laura, 10, Leanne(?), 8, Stephen,6, James, 5). Andrew,3, was saved by...

  • Salary rises for privatised industry chiefs (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate

    Report on the controversy caused by pay rises to industry chiefs after privatisation, and the reaction from politicians. Deputy Labour leader Roy Hattersley and Prime Minister John Major debate the matter in...

  • Norman Schwarzkopf memoirs (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Paul Woodley reports from New York for LBC Newstalk 97.3 on the publication of General Norman Schwarzkopf’s memoirs (to come out next year) and the victory by Bantam publishing who won the bidding war for...

  • Luxembourg EC summit (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Report on the Luxembourg EC summit which discussed tasks related to enlargement of the community, with speeches from French President Francois Mitterrand, through an interpreter, and British Prime Minister...