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  • Soviets ready to conform for aid (1991)

    Genre
    Speech

    Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks (through an interpreter) at the Congress of Peoples Deputies and claims the republics need to form a charter in order to recieve food and economic aid from the West.

  • Major on Hong Kong handover (1991)

    Genre
    Speech

    Prime Minister John Major visits Hong Kong, and gives a speech claiming his criticised visit to Peking was vital in the run-up to the handover of the colony to China in 1997. He reassures the people of Hong...

  • Hurd comments on Yugoslavian conflict (1991)

    Genre
    Speech

    After latest peace talks in the Hague to find a resolution to Yugoslavian conflict UK Home Secretary Douglas Hurd warns those still fighting their way will not work.

  • British Film Institute honours Alec Guinness (1991)

    Genre
    Speech

    Sir Alec Guinness accepts a British Film Institute Fellowship Award. In his speech he claims he was never a great cinema actor.

  • TUC conference round-up (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Speech

    George Matheson reports on the TUC conference in Glasgow as it comes to a close, with attacks on the Conservative Government and support for the Labour Party and an attack on Japanese firms in the UK’s...

  • Lib Dem conference (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Report from the Liberal Democrat party conference in Bournemouth. Includes speeches by party President Charles Kennedy; education spokesman Matthew Taylor; deputy leader Sir Russell Johnston; and Bournemouth...

  • Lib Dem conference- economics, employment and EMU (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Report from the Liberal Democrats party conference in Bournemouth on their economic and employment policies and European monetary union. Includes speeches from Treasury spokesman Alan Beith; employment...

  • Liberal Democrat conference- constitutional reform approved (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Paul Rowley reports from the Liberal Democrats conference in Bournemouth which has unanimously approved the party’s programme for constitutional reform involving a bill of rights, a freedom of...

  • Closing address at Liberal Democrat conference (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    Paul Rowley reports from Bournemouth on the closing address at the Liberal Democrat party conference by party leader Paddy Ashdown. Includes excerpts from Ashdown’s speech in which he says the next...

  • US loan to Israel (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Interview

    Report on a financial loan by the United States to Israel, which is to be used for schools and health, and not on the occupied terrirtories. President George Bush has asked for a delay in lending the money...