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First London Lookout broadcast (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Special
First London Lookout broadcast, in which Richard Robbins describes the traffic in London from the air. Male anchor not identified.
Death of Lucille Ball (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Obituary
In Hollywood, they called her the queen of comedy, and now at the age of seventy-seven, Lucille Ball is dead. She is known throughout the world as star of the situation comedy, I Love Lucy. From America,...
Paddy Ashdown calls for SDP-SLD party merger (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
In the wake of the Vale of Glamorgan by-election and other election results, Social and Liberal Democrats leader, Paddy Ashdown calls upon David Owen’s SDP to merge with his party. However, Rosie Barnes MP...
Risley Remand Centre - House of Commons debate (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate
In the House of Commons, Margaret Thatcher’s tenth anniversary in power was marked by sharp exchanges between herself and Neil Kinnock. But as Paul Rowley reports, it followed MPs’ continuing concern...
Panama election violence (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Panama’s dictator, General Noriega has defied the vote of his people and declared this week’s elections null and void. Steven Norris MP, who observed the poll, says it is a shameless snub to...
Risley Remand Centre returns 300 prisoners to cells (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Prison officers at the Risley Remand Centre in Warrington, Cheshire are threatening to take industrial action following last week’s riots. They are angry at the decision by the authorities to move more...
Labour Party NEC discusses defence policy (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Labour’s ruling National Executive has been meeting for the last 5 hours, discussing its most dramatic ever change in direction, designed to put the party back on the road to government. Over the next...
Woman gang raped and beaten in Central Park (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop
A huge police and security operation has been mounted in New York’s Central Park in the wake of an attack on a young woman jogger who was gang raped and left for dead. The attack, which made headlines...
Mandy Smith to marry Bill Wyman (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Model Mandy Smith has revealed that she is forsaking her Catholic faith so that she can marry Rolling Stone, Bill Wyman. The Catholic Church is refusing to sanction the wedding because Wyman has been...
Neil Kinnock and new Labour policies (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Labour leader Neil Kinnock’s campaign to set the party on the road to new realism went ahead this morning with a series of policy victories in the crucial National Executive talks. One session saw the...