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David Owen conference speech (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Paul Rowley reports from Scarborough on Dr David Owen’s keynote speech at the SDP conference there (with excerpts). He was forced to give the speech outside through a loudspeaker on the seafront following...
Neil Kinnock conference speech (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Peter Spencer reports on leader, Neil Kinnock’s keynote speech at the Labour Party conference in Brighton (excerpts heard). His speech concentrated on the party’s image and the environment and also...
Marchioness disaster-news bulletin on morning of disaster (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News bulletin; News report
8.00 am news bulletin read by Richard Bath focusing on the Marchioness pleasure boat disaster earlier this morning (20/08/89) when 51 people drowned during a birthday party for merchant banker, Antonio de...
RUC Inner Circle investigation (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Colin Duncan reports from Belfast, where police are questioning an Irish News journalist, Terry McLaughlin, following reports that RUC officers have formed a secret group, called the Inner Circle, to wipe...
Labour conference (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Peter Spencer reports on the 1989 Labour Party conference in Brighton where delegates voted on the new multilateral defence strategy and a new set of policies designed to widen the party’s electoral appeal...
Aquino rules out return of Marcos’s body (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Greg Larson reports from Manila in the Philippines where President Corazon (or Cory) Aquino is refusing to allow the body of former president, Ferdinand Marcos, to be returned to the country for burial....
Arms talks in Wyoming (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Paul Woodley reports from Wyoming in the USA on arms talks between the Soviet Union’s Eduard Shevardnadze and the US and future summit. Includes excerpt from press conferences featuring US Secretary of...
Liver transplant for Aisling Barnett (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Nicky Broyd reports on the case of Aisling Barnett from Hackney who has undergone a liver transplant operation at London’s King’s College Hospital. She suffered acute liver failure just five weeks after...
Church leaders close unity gap (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference; Speech
James Bays reports from Rome about talks between the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie and Pope John Paul II, which it’s hoped will pave the way towards unity between the Catholic and Protestant...
USAir Flight 5050 accident (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Paul Woodley reports from New York on the investigation into an accident where a Boeing 737 skidded off a runway at take off at New York’s LaGuardia airport and plunged into the East River (21/09/89)....