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Rates limits set on Labour councils (1985)
- Genre
- Speech
Extract from Environment Secretary Patrick Jenkin’s Commons speech setting a Rate Limitation Order which prescribes rates (local taxes) limits for thirteen Labour controlled local authorities. Details...
Clarke on government powers to control the spread of AIDS (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with health minister Kenneth Clarke on the government’s decision not to make AIDS an official notifiable disease. Clarke arguing the government has the necessary powers to control the spread of...
Police hunt in Fulham drugs murder (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the police hunt for two men wanted in connection with the shotgun killing of 32-year-old Adam Sedgwick (son-in-law of Lord Normanby) at his flat in Fabian Road, Fulham yesterday morning, in a row...
NATO nuclear warfare policy (1985)
- Genre
- Speech
Paul Maurice reports on the speech by NATO Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Bernard Rogers, to the American Chamber of Commerce, on NATO’s nuclear warfare policy. Includes extracts, with Rogers...
Dumping of Sellafield mud at DoE in anti-nuclear protest (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Special
Report on the dumping today of six tons of mud from the Sellafield nuclear processing plant on the doorstep of the Department of the Environment by seven Greenpeace protesters who were later given a...
Prince Philip on the mining industry (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Dickie Arbiter reports on Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh’s speech to mining industry workers in London, in which he made no direct reference to the current coal industry dispute but argued coal and oil...
IBA ban Channel 4 programme on MI5 phone tapping (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the Channel 4 programme MI5’s Official Secrets which was banned by the IBA shortly before transmission last night on the grounds it would have contravened the Official Secrets Act. During the...
BBC ban Village People record (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; Music
Interview with the lead singer of Village People, Jeff Olson, on the pop group’s latest record, Sex Over the Phone, which has been banned by the BBC, but is being played by independent local radio (ILR)...
Live BBC radio coverage of Thatcher US Congress speech (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Special; Speech
Live BBC radio coverage with Brian Barron commentary of Margaret Thatcher’s speech to a joint session of the US Congress, the first British Prime Minister to be so honoured since Winston Churchill....
Thatcher on EEC summit (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
John Fraser interviews UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher about the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the EEC summit which included agreement for Spain and Portugal to enter and on her wish to reduce red tape...