Results
7,185 results found for all records.
Mid-Staffordshire by-election (1990)
- Genre
- Election coverage; Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop
Paul Rowley reports on the Mid-Staffordshire by-election battle with opinion polls predicting Labour overturning a large Conservative majority due to poll tax (community charge) and high interest rates...
Mid-Staffordshire by-election (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech; Vox pop
Paul Rowley reports on the Mid-Staffordshire by-election, the impact of the poll tax (community charge) and what the predicted Conservative Party loss could mean. Speakers are Environment Secretary Chris...
Cuban communism facing struggle (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech; Vox pop
Nick Peters reports from Washington on the US hopes for Communism to be ousted from Cuba like it has been in Europe. Speakers are US President George H W Bush; Newt Gingrich, a conservative Republican...
Czech leader’s visit to the ICA in London (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Clive Myrie reports on Czechoslovakian leader Vaclav Havel addressing London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts on his work as a playwright and changes in his country. Includes Havel speaking via a...
Namibia free from South African rule (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
David O’Sullivan reports from Namibia on the end of South African 70 year occupation of Namibia. Includes speech by South African President F W de Klerk.
Mid-Staffordshire by-election results (1990)
- Genre
- Election coverage; News report; Speech
Paul Rowley reports on the result of the Mid-Staffordshire by-election and the reaction of the candidates with the Conservative Party losing their large majority and the seat to the Labour Party. Includes...
Thatcher and Kohl to discuss reunification of Germany (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and German Vice Chancellor, Helmut Kohl will meet today for talks. Ahead of the talks, Margaret Thatcher makes a speech (possibly at a dinner in Cambridge, held to mark the...
George Bush gives speech on AIDS crisis (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
US President George H. W. Bush has made a speech addressing the subject of AIDS. In an excerpt he touches on discrimination, cures, and the deaths of his own loved ones. Tim Sweeney of Gay Men’s Health...
Coke can murder release (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Speech
Alban Turner, who served two and a half years for the so-called Coke Can Murder at the Notting Hill Carnival, is released and makes a statement criticising police handling of the affair. His father, Alban...
Conservative Party Central Council supports Thatcher (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report from the conference of Conservative Central Council, in Cheltenham. Delegate Sally Williams gives a rousing speech in support of Margaret Thatcher. Hilary(?) Taylor complains about party public...