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  • Edinburgh festival 1993 review (1993)

    Genre
    Interview; Music; News report; Poetry

    Robert Murrell(?) reviews this year’s Edinburgh Festival and makes his own personal choices of the best. With Lee Evans on winning the Perrier award and clip from his show; director Robert Kingdom on his...

  • Mikhail Gorbachev takes part in Question Time (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Vox pop; Music; Speech; Poetry

    Report on the visit of former Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev to London, where he took part in a special edition of Question Time at Westminster Central Hall. Former Speaker of the House, Lord (Bernard)...

  • Peter Lilley on benefit cheats (1994)

    Genre
    Speech; Poetry

    At the Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth, Social Security Secretary, Peter Lilley says the Government is to launch a crackdown on social security cheats. He recites a rhyme based on Hey Diddle...

  • Echoes of D-Day (1994)

    Genre
    Documentary; Drama; Interview; Poetry; Special; Speech

    Echoes of D-Day. A one-hour drama documentary commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy and the beginning of the liberation of Europe. Presented by Lord James Callaghan....

  • War poems read at the Imperial War Museum (1995)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Poetry

    Jason Kaye reports on readings at the Imperial War Museum of Second World War poetry written by ordinary people from a compilation put together by the Oasis group, The Voice of War. Includes excerpt of Oh...

  • Queen Mothers’ 95th birthday (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Interview; Speech; Vox pop; Poetry

    Jeff Collins reports on the Queen Mother’s ninety-fifth birthday. Wellwishers gathered outside her official residence at Clarence House to celebrate the occasion. Includes vox pop with crowd; interview...

  • Ancient religious sites of Britain (1995)

    Genre
    Documentary; Interview; Poetry

    Lawrence Spicer examines ancient religious sites of Britain predating Christianity, and also the early Christian places of worship. He visits Stonehenge in Wiltshire; Westminster Cathedral in London....