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Parliamentary round-up (1996)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Political correspondent Mark Demery reports on events in Parliament, with only 24 hours until the publication of the Scott Report into sale of arms to Iraq. His summary includes Labour MP Paul Flynn, calling...
Scott Report out today (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Ed Boyle reports on the pending publication - later this afternoon - of the Scott Report into sale of arms to Iraq and on Nicholas Lyell, Attorney General, who signed gagging orders. Key ministers have had...
Arms to Iraq scandal (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Parliamentary reporter Robert Allen looks at the arms to Iraq scandal and the Scott inquiry set up to investigate it. The speakers include: Paul Henderson, managing director of Matrix Churchill, the company...
Joan Collins court case (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference; Vox pop
Paul Chapman reports on actor Joan Collins’ victory over her publishers Random House in court after a two-year trial. They were suing for return of her advance payments as her books were not of a high...
London Bridge, TV soap (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Lizzie Knight reports on the launch of London Bridge - a new London-based TV drama produced by Carlton and set in a Thames-side restaurant. Rosalind March who plays Liz Kemp and Sean Francis who plays her...
Robin Cook prepares for speed-read of Scott Report (1996)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
News 97.3’s Mark Demery reports on the stage-managed events as Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Robin Cook goes to the Department of Trade and Industry for a pre-release speed read of the Scott Report...
Scott Report initial reaction (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Parliamentary debate; Special; Vox pop
Ed Boyle reports on initial reaction to the Scott Report on sale of arms to Iraq and whether heads will roll, particularly those of William Waldegrave and Nicholas Lyell. Includes Prime Minister John Major...
Matrix Churchill defendant reacts to Scott report (1996)
- Genre
- News report
The Scott inquiry into sale of arms to Iraq was launched after the trial of three Matrix Churchill executives accused of exporting arms to Iraq collapsed amidst accusations that government ministers had...
IRA bomb attempt in London (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Lisa Costello reports on an IRA bombing attempt in Shaftesbury Avenue in London following end of the ceasefire with the Docklands bomb in Canary Wharf last week. Superintendent Bob Kynnersley announces a...
Philip Lawrence funeral (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
The family of murdered headmaster Philip Lawrence have led mourners at his funeral service at Ealing Abbey. The former West London headmaster was stabbed to death while trying to stop a struggle between...