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39,247 results found for all records.
SDP and Liberal Party merger (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Founders of the new merged Social and Liberal Democrats (SLD) Party- former SDP leader, Robert Maclennan, former Liberal Party leader, David Steel, and former SDP President Shirley Williams celebrate the...
Douglas Hurd on radio programme ban (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Exclusive LBC interview with Douglas Hurd, Home Secretary defending the government’s decision to ban the BBC radio programme My Country Right or Wrong that featured former members of the British security...
Ronald Regan on NATO summit and Middle East peace efforts (1988)
- Genre
- Press conference
US President Ronald Reagan speaking to press on the first day of the NATO summit in Brussels on the areas of discussion including arms reduction and need for improvement in human rights in the USSR; and on...
Call for Middle East peace talks (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
UK Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe on Palestine and Israel and the need for peace talks.
Eyewitness account of Gibraltar shootings (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a male eyewitness (not identified - poss. Stephen Bullock) to the shooting of one of the three IRA terrorist suspects killed in Gibraltar by British security forces (06/03/88). (The three were...
Steve Jones show (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Steve Jones interviews mountaineer, Lord Hunt (John Hunt) about the influence his army career has had on his later achievements, including leading the first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953, and...
Social and Liberal Democratic Party launch (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; Music; News report; Speech
Emma Udwin reports on the launch of the Social and Liberal Democratic Party, following the merger of the Liberal Party and the SDP. Also comments on the decision of Dr David Owen to continue with a breakaway...
Margaret Thatcher on NATO summit (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
John Fraser interviews UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, which focused on the need for Western nations to maintain a credible nuclear deterrent against the alleged...
Ronald Reagan speech at NATO summit (1988)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by US President, Ronald Reagan at a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, which focused on the need for Western nations to maintain a credible nuclear deterrent against the alleged Soviet superiority in...
Drugs raid in Peckham (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Michael O’Neill reports on an undercover police raids in Peckham, south London, where eleven people were arrested in a drug-busting operation. Includes interviews with male and female police officers (not...