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TUC conference - EEPTU expulsion from TUC (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
John Alcock reports on the Trades Union Congress (TUC) conference which has been debating the expulsion of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EEPTU) from the TUC for breaching...
Overview of TUC conference (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
John Alcock reflects on an eventful week at the TUC conference in Bournemouth. There was strong support for Postal Workers leader Alan Tuffin, Seaman’s Union leader Sam McCluskey and ANC Secretary General...
Ray Suttner freed from Johannesburg jail (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
White political prisoner Raymond Suttner along with his pet lovebird has been released after over 2 years in a Johannesburg jail, the majority spent in solitary confinement. He was arrested after the South...
Kinnock speech to TUC conference (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
John Alcock reports on Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock’s speech at the TUC conference in Bournemouth (excerpts heard) which attacked Chancellor Nigel Lawson for record trade deficits and raised interest...
Prince Charles on video nasties (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop
Julie Benson reports on a row involving Prince Charles (Prince of Wales) following a speech at a meeting of cinema directors where he lectured about film and television violence and video nasties. Includes...
Edwina Currie dispenses advice to pensioners (1988)
- Genre
- Speech
Health Minister, Edwina Currie offers advice to British pensioners, saying that they should get themselves woolly nightcaps to keep them warm this winter. The advice is not entirely well-received.
1988 Olympic Games opening ceremony (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Commentary and comment from the 1988 Olympic Games opening ceremony and lighting of the Olympic Flame in Seoul, South Korea. The Great Britain team is watched by John Anderson of IRN Sport - the athletics...
SDP Conference - David Owen on coalition (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Following the creation of the Social and Liberal Democrats (SLDP), the leader of the re-formed Social Democratic Party (SDP), Dr David Owen, makes a rallying address to his party at their conference in...
Margaret Thatcher makes anti-super-state speech (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
In a speech given at the College of Europe on her visit to Bruges, British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher has shocked Britain’s European partners with her patriotic stance on Europe, claiming that it...
Bank robbery - National Westminster, Preston (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech
Workers at the National Westminster Bank in Preston are back to work today after being held captive by armed raiders who escaped with a small fortune (15/09/88). Senior bank official Donald Flitcroft(?) said...