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39,247 results found for all records.
Heath on Thatcher’s chances at next election (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with former Prime Minister Edward Heath on Conservative Party chances of winning the next general election and of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher remaining in power. Also on the weak Labour Party...
Attempts to bring Commons to order (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
Report on Speaker George Thomas’ House of Commons order that MPs keep questions brief and reduce the noise level at Prime Minister’s Question Time. Includes speeches by Thomas; Labour MP Andrew Faulds;...
Latest Labour attempt to expel Militant (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the latest attempt by the Labour Party to expel the Militant Tendency, with the NEC bringing charges against 5 members of the Militant newspaper’s editorial board. Includes interviews with Labour...
Tebbit on TUC scheme to tackle unemployment (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Employment Secretary Norman Tebbit standing by the Government’s present policies on unemployment and rejecting the TUC scheme, which requires a 10 billion pound investment. Speaking as 1 in...
Bentley hanging anniversary and family’s campaign (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the 30th anniversary of 19-year-old Derek Bentley’s hanging in Wandsworth Prison for the murder of a policeman, and the family’s continuing campaign to get him a posthumous pardon. Includes...
Pioneering laser operation (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Ron Thurston on his 8-year-old son Julian Thurston - recovering from the removal of a life-threatening spinal tumour in a pioneering laser operation carried out by neurologist Dr Fred Epstein...
Pioneering US laser operation (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Interview
Report on 8-year-old Julian Thurston, who has had a life-threatening spinal tumour removed in a pioneering laser operation carried out by neurologist Dr Fred Epstein at the New York University Medical...
Prisoner David Martin recaptured (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference; Speech
Report on the recapture at Belsize Park Tube station of 35-year-old escaped prisoner David Martin, after the mistaken shooting by Metropolitan Police officers of Stephen Waldorf. Includes accounts by...
Prisoner David Martin recapture (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the court appearance of recaptured prisoner David Martin, his going on hunger strike and charges he faces. Includes statement by Martin’s solicitor Anthony Bloch. Follows mistaken shooting of...
Sizewell inquiry (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview on the request to adjourn the safety section of the Sizewell nuclear plant application inquiry until the NNI has produced a full safety assessment of the CEGB’s nuclear reactor design. Also on...