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Miners strike - Background to dispute (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Mark Easton provides background information on the miners’ dispute. He explains that when Ian MacGregor was made head of the National Coal Board, he brought with him plans that would change the mining...
Miners strike - Len Murray on picket line violence (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Kevin Heathorn interviews Len Murray, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), about picket line violence, following the death of a miner last night (presumably 23 year-old flying picket David...
Miners strike - Eyewitness account of picket line violence (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male eyewitness on the coal miners’ picket line action in Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, where miner David Jones died. Speaker describes how bottles, sticks, bricks and stones were thrown. He saw...
Miners’ strike - Arthur Scargill and national ballot (1984)
- Genre
- Press conference
Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), on the strikes. Scargill says the police presence in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire is unwarranted and unprecedented. He condemns Ian...
Trade unionists concerned about riot police (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on a report documenting concern felt by trade unionists about the Police and their activities. The deployment of officers with visors and helmets on the scale seen at Warrington is...
Funeral of President Andropov (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Tribute; Music; Special
Report on the funeral of Soviet President Yuri Andropov. The oldest man to take power in the Soviet Union, Konstantin Chernenko, pays tribute (in Russian). Defence Minister Dmitriy Ustinov said the Soviet...
Radio Moscow announces death of Yuri Andropov (1984)
- Genre
- News report
Radio Moscow World Service announces the death of Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Presidium...
Ronald Reagan will not attend Andropov’s funeral (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Andrew Manderstam reports on US President Ronald Reagan’s decision not to attend Soviet leader Yuri Andropov’s funeral. Reagan is ending a holiday at his ranch near Santa Barbara in California and is due...
Helmut Kohl on his visit to Israel (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Report on German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s visit to Israel. Political analysts see Kohl’s visit as a thorough success for West Germany. The Israelis believe Bonn will eventually decide to sell...
Israeli troops in Lebanon (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on Israeli troops in Lebanon. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said that Israel will protect its own interests by any means necessary when he addressed American Jewish leaders in Jerusalem. He...