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Kuwaiti Airlines hijacking (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Linda Duffin reports on the arab hijackers holding hostages on board a Kuwaiti Airlines jet hijacked in Iran, and following the release of the women captives. Includes Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
Fiennes pulls out of unsupported Arctic expedition (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Interview with explorer Ranulph Fiennes following his abandonment after fifteen days of an unsupported expedition to the Arctic. On the sledges being unsuited to the unusual snow surface, and that he will be...
Amnesty launching inquiry into IRA shootings in Gibraltar (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Julian Rush reports on the letter sent by Amnesty International to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher concerning the shooting of 3 IRA men in Gibraltar murders saying they have launched an investigation....
London prostitute murdered (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report of the strangulation of prostitute Angela Bailey and dumping of her body in the Eastbourne Mews area of London. Detective Superintendent Bob Andrews on the possiblity that the murderer was one of...
Shirley Banks’ body discovered (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Mary Carter reporting on the discovery of a badly decomposed and battered body in a stream in the Quantock Hills, Somerset. Assistant Chief Constable John Harland confirming the body is that of the missing...
Royal alpine ski tragedy (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Simon Cole reporting for News at Ten on the avalanche which killed Major Hugh Lindsay and injured Patty Palmer-Tomkinson, friends of Prince Charles, at the Alpine ski resort of Klosters, Switzerland....
Globe Theatre rebuilding delayed by Travellers’ encampment (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Mark Percy reports on the obstacle to film tycoon Sam Wanamaker’s plans to rebuild Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre on its original spot by the Thames posed by Irish Travellers camping on the site. Includes...
Tony Benn speech in Essex (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Paul Seagrove reports on a speech by Labour leadership contender Tony Benn at Basildon, Essex. In a veiled attack on Neil Kinnock, he argues for the right of party members to put forward different views, and...
World Food Conference in Brussels (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
John Fraser reporting on the World Food Conference in Brussels. President of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda bursts into song before delivering his speech on third world famine and short-termism in giving food aid....
Kuwaiti Airlines hijacking (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Simon Israel reports back to the studio on the return to the UK at Heathrow Airport of British hostages from a hijacked Kuwaiti Airlines jet. Mark Appleby, one of the hostages, describes the hijackers taking...