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Peter Scott dies (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Obituary
Peter Russell reports on the death of naturalist Sir Peter Scott, who has died after a third heart attack at the age of seventy-nine. Sir Peter who founded the Wildfowl Trust and the World Wildlife Fund was...
Ferdinand Marcos obituary (1989)
- Genre
- Speech; Obituary
Michael O’Neill reports on the death of former President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, and looks back on his career as dictator and the greedy tastes of his wife Imelda Marcos. Includes archive...
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...
Graham Chapman obituary (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; Obituary; Music
Camilla Affleck reports on the death of comedian and writer, Graham Chapman, who’s lost his year-long fight against cancer. His colleagues from the Monty Python’s Flying Circus television show have been...
Graham Chapman, Monty Python star is buried at Maidstone (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Obituary
Catherine Bayfield reports on the death from cancer and quiet family funeral in Maidstone, Kent of Monty Python star, Graham Chapman. Includes reading by Reverend Tony Porter of a poem written by Chapman’s...
Vladimir Bukovsky on the death of Andrei Sakharov (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; Tribute; Obituary
Soviet political dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky talks to Nigel Dearing about the late Dr Andrei Sakharov’s impact on the opposition of the Soviet Union, his best achievements, and his influence in the country.
Death of Andrei Sakharov (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; Tribute; Obituary
Nigel Dearing reports on the death of Soviet disssident, Dr Andrei Sakharov. The report looks at his life, his work on nuclear physics, and his political dissidence. Fellow dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky talks...
Death of John Heddle MP (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Tribute; Obituary
Conservative MP, John Heddle, has been found dead in a car at a chalk pit near Canterbury. Heddle represented the constituency of Mid-Staffordshire, where he had a majority of nearly fifteen thousand....
1980s news clips - Peter Sellers montage (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; Speech; Obituary
Montage of archive clips featuring the actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who died on 24/07/80. From a series of news clips from the 1980s used in a retrospective compilation at the end of the decade.
Terry-Thomas dies (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; Obituary
Comic actor Terry-Thomas has died after a 15 year battle against Parkinson’s disease. Camilla Affleck looks back at the man and his career. Harry Secombe, Richard Briers, Barbara Windsor and Lionel Blair...