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Thatcher on the growth of enterprise (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on UK PM Margaret Thatcher helping to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of enterprise trusts which give advice and support to small businesses. In a speech she claims British industry and businesses...
BR employees win right to strike (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
The Court of Appeal has refused to grant an injunction to British Rail to stop 24 hour strikes on the railways. BR spokesman Paul Watkinson says the company will get together with the NUR to solve the...
Ronald Reagan speech at Guildhall in London (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Recording of the 1989 Churchill lecture - The Triumph of Freedom, by US President, Ronald Reagan - at the Guildhall in London. Reagan says the international revolution in communications technology has...
Former President Reagan speech supporting Chinese protests (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Tony Cook reports on a speech by former US President, Ronald Reagan, at the Churchill Lecture at the Guildhall in London in which he strongly supported the student protests in China and warned that once the...
Terence Stamp on autobiography (1989)
- Genre
- Biography; Interview; Speech
Sarah Dickinson interviews British actor, Terence Stamp, following the publication of the third volume of his autobiography, Double Feature. In the book he describes the pain of being jilted by the love of...
Lockerbie relatives’ meeting (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Nick Peters reports on a meeting of relatives of Lockerbie bombing victims in a school theatre in Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA. Rows broke out over a party in Lockerbie paid for by airline Pan Am, claimed to...
NUR to strike (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
The NUR union’s leader Jimmy Knapp is forecasting strong and solid support for the forthcoming 24 hour rail strikes over pay and bargaining conditions. Opening the NUR’s annual conference in...
US flag burning (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Nick Peters reports on President George H.W. Bush saying he will push for an amendment to the USA Constitution to outlaw desecration of the American flag, after a ruling by the Supreme Court that flag...
Russian defector revealed in obituary (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Nick Peters reports from Washington DC on the revelation of a Russian spy in his obituary yesterday in Russian military newspaper Red Star. Mikhail Orlov, a staff member of the KGB had grown up in Illinois...
Prime minister’s question time tackles BR and Europe (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Des Fahy reports on Prime Ministers’s Question Time, in which Margaret Thatcher criticises the national rail strikes and confronts the issue of privatisation of British Rail; and also speaks on UK...