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Labour deputy leadership contest (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the Labour Party deputy leadership contest. Includes comment by Labour leader Michael Foot. Male reporter not identified (poss. Peter Spencer).
Cuts in foreign aid (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Report on the UK Conservative Government’s cut in foreign aid to developing countries since the publication of the Brandt Commission report, which advocated development of the Third World. Speakers (in the...
Margaret Thatcher visits Scotland (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on a visit made by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to Scotland, where she spoke about terrorism in Northern Ireland, following the death of Maze Prison hunger striker Bobby Sands MP. (Scottish) male...
Government defence spending debate (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Report on Government defence spending. Defence Secretary, John Nott, Labour leader Michael Foot and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher take part in a House of Commons debate. Male reporter not identified.
NATO summit - US contribution (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the US contribution made at the NATO Foreign Ministers’ Conference in Rome. US Secretary of State, Alexander Haig gives a speech on points raised. (North American) male reporter not identified.
French Presidency campaigns begin (1981)
- Genre
- News report
Martin Ransom reports as the election process for a new French President begins.
First broadcasts in French Presidential election campaign (1981)
- Genre
- News report
Martin Ransom reports on the first political television broadcasts of the ten candidates in the French Presidential elections.
French Presidential elections- bomb explodes in Corsica (1981)
- Genre
- News report
Martin Ransom reports on a bomb which exploded in Corsica as French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing arrived on his Presidential election campaign tour.
French Presidential elections- polls before first round (1981)
- Genre
- News report
Martin Ransom reports on public opinion polls ten days before the first round of the Presidential elections in France.
French Presidential elections- Giscard’s election campaign (1981)
- Genre
- News report
Martin Ransom reports on speeches made by French President, Valery Giscard d’Estaing in socialist towns during his campaign to be re-elected.