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  • Blackpool pleasure beach fire (1991)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Vox pop

    Report on a fire at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, no one was injured but some rides were badly damaged. Follows a previous IRA attack on the town, its not clear if this is is also an IRA attack. With comment...

  • New Year celebrations in London (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Vox pop; Interview

    Report on New Year celebrations from Trafalgar Square, London. Speakers are police Chief Superintendent Trevor Spice; street seller Julius Sparder(?); Assistant Chief Officer St John Ambulance Hugh Chambers;...

  • US-Iraqi talks on Gulf crisis (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Vox pop

    Report on US Secretary of State James Baker’s visit to Geneva, Switzerland to meet with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz over the Gulf crisis. Includes excerpt of nationwide radio broadcast by US...

  • Soviet troops attack Lithuanian television centre (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Vox pop

    Soviet soldiers have stormed Lithuania’s main television and radio centre in Vilnius. At least 11 people are feared dead and over 100 injured. Katherine Kelly is in the studio; Sue Jameson reports from the...

  • Lithuanian Government meets in emergency session (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Vox pop

    Soviet soldiers have stormed Lithuania’s main television and radio centre in Vilnius. Eleven people have been killed. The Lithuanian Parliament is now meeting in emergency session. An angry male...

  • Soldiers prepare for Iraq war (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Vox pop; Interview

    Defence correspondent Paul Maurice reports from Saudi Arabia as Allied troops prepare for war in Iraq hours before the United Nations deadline. Captain Bill Hedges says that his men have finished training...

  • Anti-war protests on the streets of Iraq (1991)

    Genre
    Vox pop; Interview

    Reporter Andy Stenton talks to people on the streets of Iraq on the day of the United Nations deadline protesting against war; unidentified Iraqi male speaker speaks for his countrymen.

  • Kuwaiti exiles views on Gulf War strikes (1991)

    Genre
    Vox pop

    Kuwaiti people that have been living in exile in London give their views and hopes for return following the first allied air strikes against Saddam Hussein. Male reporter not identified. For Newstalk Breakfast.

  • Kuwaiti people on the start of the Gulf War (1991)

    Genre
    Vox pop

    Vox pop with Kuwaiti exiles on the start of military action against Saddam Hussein in the Gulf to get him to withdraw from Kuwait. Reporter not heard.

  • Anti-Gulf War protests in London (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Vox pop

    James Bays reports on the anti-Gulf War protests in London with a march on Downing Street, including vox pop with protesters shocked war has broken out with little public input.