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USAir Flight 5050 accident (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Paul Woodley reports from New York on an incident where a Boeing 737 skidded off a runway at take off at New York’s LaGuardia airport and plunged into a river and the rescue operation which saved most of...
Funeral of policeman, Raymond Codling (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Marianne Wisby(?) reports from Manchester on the funeral of Manchester police inspector, Raymond Codling, killed by a lone gunmen in a chance encounter at a motorway service station. Includes speeches at the...
Thatcher visits bombed barracks (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Catherine Bayfield reports on a visit to Deal in Kent by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, following the an IRA bomb attack on the Royal Marines barracks which killed eleven bandsmen. She visited the wounded...
Broadwater Farm drugs raid - Reaction (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Gareth Furby reports on a drugs raid by the Metropolitan Police on the Broadwater Farm estate in north London, coming just a week before the fourth anniversary of the riots in which PC Keith Blakelock was...
Broadwater Farm raid - Police press conference (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Rodney Bennett reports on a Metropolitan Police press conference following a drugs raid on the Broadwater Farm estate in north London, coming just a week before the fourth anniversary of the riots in which...
Ferdinand Marcos obituary (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Obituary
Michael O’Neill looks back on the career of former Filipino president, Ferdinand Marcos, following his death at the age of seventy-two. Includes excerpt from an archive interview on the US ABC Nightline...
Commonwealth report on climate change (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
John Allen reports on reaction by Shridath Ramphal, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, to a report on the effects of world climate change. The report comes a month before the Commonwealth leaders’...
Baby born as result of new fertility method (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Tanya Shields reports from Liverpool on the birth of John Liam Donaldson to parents Kathleen and John Donaldson. The birth was made possible by a revolutionary fertility treatment. The new intra-vaginal...
Archbishop Runcie and Pope John Paul II sign declaration (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
James Bays reports on the signing of a joint declaration between Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, and the Pope, in Rome, which it is hoped will pave the way towards unity between the Catholic and...
SDP conference - Speeches (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Music
Peter Spencer reports on the SDP conference in Scarborough. Pessimists say that with four percent of the popular vote behind them, the party is heading for oblivion; optimists, by way of contrast, say they...