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Conservative trade unionists meet (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Richard Dallyn reports on a meeting of Conservative trade unionists. Includes speeches by Conservative Party Chairman, Norman Tebbit, criticising the Labour Party, Labour leader Neil Kinnock and the...
Enoch Powell claims US plot aimed to unite Ireland (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on claims by Ulster Unionist MP, Enoch Powell that the USA had backed a plot, agreed with MI6, to unite Ireland, and was behind the deaths of Lord Mountbatten and Airey Neave. Includes excerpts of...
Obituary of David Penhaligon MP (1986)
- Genre
- Obituary; Speech
A look back at the career of Liberal MP for Truro, David Charles Penhaligon, who has been killed in a car accident (22/12/86). Includes excerpts of speeches by Penhaligon to the Liberal Party Assembly in...
News International dispute - Print unions demo (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on a demonstration by print unions at the News International plant at Wapping, London in the ongoing printers’ labour dispute. Includes speech by Tony Dubbins, National Graphical Association (NGA)...
News International dispute - Trade unions demo (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on a trade unions demonstration in support of the News International printers’ dispute at Wapping, London. Includes speech by John Prescott MP; interview with Tony Dubbins, National Graphical...
Smiths Dock closure (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Vox pop
Report on a mass rally in Middlesbrough, following the announcement of the closure of the Smiths Dock on Teesside (15/05/86), and union calls for a national dock strike. Includes vox pop with workers at the...
Chunnel vision (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; Special; Speech; Vox pop
Chunnel Vision, a documentary on the Channel Tunnel. On history and background and implications to Channel Tunnel project between Britain and France with pro and anti views expressed via speeches,...
A place in the country (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; Speech; Special
Steve Allen is given a guided tour of the Broadlands house and estate in Romsey, Hampshire, owned by Lord Romsey (Norton Knatchbull), the son of Lord Louis Mountbatten and open to the public. Tour given by...
IRN news review of 1986 (1986)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop
IRN news review of 1986. Introduced by Douglas Cameron; presented by Dave Loyn. Includes news reports and interviews from throughout the year. Stories include: terrorist attacks; the Chernobyl disaster; the...
Labour Party against a coalition (1986)
- Genre
- Speech
Unidentified male speaker (poss. Roy Hattersley, Deputy Leader, speaking at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool?) on Labour’s stance against any political coalition as suggested by SDP leader David Owen.