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Justice Stevenson on retirement (1979)
- Genre
- News report
Ken Dennis reports on the career of Justice Melford Stevenson, who is to retire after 53 years as a QC and High Court judge, and who served in many high-profile trials, defended Ruth Ellis and sentenced the...
Jeremy Thorpe injunction in North Devon election contest (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on writer and journalist Auberon Waugh’s contest of former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe’s North Devon constitutency on behalf of the Dog Lovers Party, and the granting of an injuction over...
James Callaghan election campaign visits (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Music
Report on election campaign visits by Labour Prime Minister, James Callaghan to two infant/junior and comprehensive schools. Includes interviews with Callaghan and an unidentified school dinner lady, and...
James Callaghan at General Election campaign meeting (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on a speech by Prime Minister James Callaghan at a Labour election campaign meeting. Includes excerpts, with Callaghan on the National Front, and disruption from hecklers over Blair Peach, the Troops...
US death penalty and John Spenkelink (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the scheduled execution of convicted murderer John Spenkelink, the first in Florida and second nationwide, after Gary Gilmore, since the 1976 US Supreme Court ruling allowing individual states to...
Concerns over Queen’s attendance of Zambia Commonwealth meeting (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on concerns over the Queen’s attendance of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Zambia, following the shooting down by surface-to-air missiles of Rhodesian passenger aircraft and Zambian...
Soviet Union tourism with London-Moscow coach service (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Special
Paul Beard reports from the new weekly Anglo-Soviet coach service between London and Moscow for tourists. Includes actuality of the arrival in the Soviet Union, stopover in Minsk and changing of the guard in...
Pope speaks at Jasna Gora (1979)
- Genre
- Music; News report
Dave Loyn reports on Pope John Paul II’s visit, on the second day of his official visit to Poland, to the monastery of Jasna Gora, and his speech in veiled support of Poland’s independence from the...
Pope visits Poland - relations between Church and State (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Paul Beard reports on Pope John Paul II’s visit to Poland, and relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Communist State. Includes interview with Polish Government spokesman Janusz(?) Stanislaw(?).
Return of El Arish to Egypt as part of Middle East peace treaty (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Peter Allen-Frost reports on the return of El Arish to Egyptian sovereignty and the opening of borders between Israel and Egypt as part of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty, and the subsequent ceremony...