Results
39,247 results found for all records.
Portsmouth South by-election (1984)
- Genre
- Election coverage; Interview; News report; Speech
Report on the by-election in Portsmouth South (14/06/84) and the loss of the Conservative seat to the SDP-Liberal Alliance. Speaking are SDP-Liberal Alliance candidate Mike Hancock; Conservative Party...
British arms sales (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Paul Maurice interviews UK Defence Secretary Michael Heseltine, on the sale of arms to foreign countries, the benefit to the economy, and controversy over sales to despotic regimes. The interview coincides...
Leon Brittan on social unrest (1984)
- Genre
- Parliamentary debate; Speech
Parliamentary speech by Home Secretary Leon Brittan, on how the Government must support the police in dealing with public violence and public order in the wake of the violence on picket lines (specifically...
Alliance takes Portsmouth South (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Liberal leader David Steel on the success of SDP-Liberal Alliance candidate Mike Hancock in the Portsmouth South by-election (14/06/84). Interviewer not heard.
Inquiries into police shooting two men (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Report on the Parliamentary debate over an incident where police shot two men at a post office in Seven Sisters Road, Tottenham, where they had been expecting a raid. Includes Commons speeches by Home...
Plans to abolish GLC (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Richard Dallyn interviews Lord Bellwin (Irwin Norman Bellow), Minister for Local Government, on the plans to abolish the GLC and why there will not be an election when the transitional body is put in place.
Thatcher’s intervention in rail pay talks (1984)
- Genre
- Parliamentary debate; Speech
Rowdy Parliamentary debate on the Government and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s intervention in rail pay talks. Speakers include Leader of the House John Biffen; Roy Mason MP; Peter Shore MP.
Miners strike - Kinnock on Government involvement (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on the Government’s involvement in the miners’ strike following the publication of official letters from the Department of Transport and Downing Street,...
Kinnock on need for action on world economy (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on the world’s failing economy and the lack of action by the major world leaders at the recent economic summit. Interviewer not heard.
Neil Kinnock on world leaders summit (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on the outcomes of a meeting of world leaders and what they should work on together especially sorting the world’s economy. Male interviewer not identified.