Results
39,247 results found for all records.
General Election - Opinion polls (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Press conference; Interview
Peter Spencer reports on the results of the latest opinion polls, a week before the 1983 General Election. Speakers include: Roy Jenkins, Social Democratic Party leader; Cecil Parkinson, Conservative...
General Election - Michael Foot resignation rumours (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Richard Dallyn reports on rumours that Labour leader Michael Foot will resign after the forthcoming 1983 General Election; also on allegations about proposed Conservative privatisation of the National Health...
General Election - Employment policies (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Report on campaigning in the 1983 General Election with the main parties concentrating on the issue of unemployment. Speakers include Social Democratic Party president Shirley Williams; Chancellor, Sir...
General Election - Leaders’ wives on Europe (1983)
- Genre
- Interview; Discussion
Jill Craigie, wife of Labour leader Michael Foot, Elspeth Howe, wife of Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe, and Jennifer Jenkins, wife of Social Democratic Party leader Roy Jenkins, on the effect of the European...
Anniversary of Coronation (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker reminisces about the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, on the thirtierth anniversary of the occasion. Female interviewer not identified (poss. Gill Pyrah).
General Election - Denis Healey controversy (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on a pre-General Election controversy over remarks made by Labour deputy leader Denis Healey suggesting that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gloried in slaughter following Britain’s military...
General Election - (Mr) Margaret Thatcher goes to court (1983)
- Genre
- News report
Tim Crook reports on a High Court case, prior to the 1983 General Election, involving a would-be parliamentary candidate named Margaret Thatcher (formerly Colin Hanoman) who had planned to stand against the...
General Election - Pensioners’ rights (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. Jack Jones) on representing the rights of pensioners in the 1983 General Election. Interviewer not heard.
General Election - Unemployment figures (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the Government’s latest unemployment figures prior to the 1983 General Election. Speakers include: Norman Tebbit, Employment Secretary; Eric Varley, Labour employment spokesman. Female reporter...
General Election - Unemployment figures (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
Report on the Government’s latest unemployment figures prior to the 1983 General Election. Speakers include: Norman Tebbit, Employment Secretary; Eric Varley, Labour employment spokesman; Shirley Williams,...