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South Africa media coverage ban (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha on the Government’s decision to ban international media coverage, claiming foreign journalists are not giving a true picture of the country. Male interviewer not...
South Africa media coverage ban (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
President of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Bishop Trevor Huddleston, on the South African Government’s decision to ban foreign media coverage of the country. Huddleston says the movement will continue to...
Tutu talks with Thatcher on apartheid (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Bishop Desmond Tutu speaking following his talks with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, when he called on her to exert pressure to dismantle apartheid in South Africa. Tutu confirms Thatcher is still against...
Tutu meeting with Kinnock on apartheid (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the meeting between Bishop Desmond Tutu and Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on apartheid in South Africa. Includes Tutu and Kinnock calling on Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British...
US arms control proposal to USSR (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Andrew Manderstam reports on US President Ronald Reagan’s announcement that a new US nuclear arms control proposal will be put to the USSR at the Geneva summit with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in...
Anti-apartheid demonstrations in London (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
President of the Anti-Apartheid Movement Bishop Trevor Huddleston on the marches and demonstration in Trafalgar Square to be held in protest at the British government’s failure to take action on apartheid...
Publication of Sara Keays’s book (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Conservative Party Deputy Chairman, Jeffrey Archer, on the political and personal impact of the publication of a book by Sara Keays (Cecil Parkinson’s former secretary, with whom Parkinson had an affair...
Conservative conference - First day (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the first day of the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool including new Party Chairman Norman Tebbit speaking one year on from the IRA bombing in Brighton. Includes extracts from Tebbit’s...
Conservative conference - First day (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the first day of the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool including Housing Minister John Patten speaking about the problems of rates (local taxes); new Party Chairman Norman Tebbit on the...
Conservative conference - Finance debate (1985)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool looking at the debate over Chancellor Nigel Lawson’s economic policies and need to reduce unemployment to improve Tory election chances. With...