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BBC in row over programme on Gibraltar IRA shooting (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Gary Duffy reports from Belfast on a row over the controversial screening of a BBC documentary about the shooting of 3 suspected IRA members in Gibraltar by the SAS, broadcast at the last minute in Northern...
P & O dispute (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
John Alcock reports on the 14 week-old seamen’s dispute involving P & O and the National Union of Seamen. Coincides with an angry outburst by NUS General Secretary, Sam McCluskie, against the shipping...
Regan portrays Reagan as controlled by astrology-influenced first lady (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Andrew Manderstam reports from Washington DC, on a controversy involving President Ronald Reagan’s former Chief of Staff, Donald Regan, who has published his memoirs entitled For the Record, which reveal...
Natalie Horrell, kidnapped baby, reunited with parents (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Nicky Broyd reports on the reuniting of five month-old Natalie Horrell with her parents, Margaret and Paul Horell, after she was kidnapped from a Cardiff department store on 02/05/88. Her abductor Delia...
This week - Death on the Rock (1988)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview; News report; Speech
Recording of Thames Television’s This Week programme, Death on the Rock, about the killing by the SAS of three suspected IRA terrorists in Gibraltar (06/03/88). The three victims were Danny McCann, Sean...
Nicholas Ridley on Green Belt policy (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley has flatly denied speculation that he is considering a wholesale dismantling of the Green Belt. Ridley says that, while many new homes will have to be built in the...
David Steel bows out of SDLP leadership race (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Former Liberal leader David Steel has bowed out of the race for the leadership of the Social and Liberal Democrats. The two frontrunners are Steel’s former deputy, Alan Beith, and the favourite, Yeovil...
Education Reform Bill defeated in House of Lords (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
The Education Reform Bill was defeated in the House of Lords last night. The Bishop of London, Graham Leonard, led the attack on the part of the bill concerned with taking schools out of local body...
Briton in Turkish jail begs Thatcher for help (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Briton Al Cimino(? - pronounced Chimeeno), from Swansea, has made a desperate plea to be rescued from the Turkish jail in which he has been held for ten years, having been given a life sentence for...
Death of Kim Philby (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Obituary
Kim Philby, the double agent who betrayed British secrets to the Russians for thirty years, has died. Ken Goodwin looks back at Philby’s life. With contributions from Phillip Knightley, who interviewed...