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Clergy suicide inquest (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Ben Brown reports from Oxford on the inquest into the suicide of the Reverend Dr Gareth Bennett, anonymous author of the Crockford’s Clerical Directory preface which attacked the heirarchy of the Church of...
Terror attack at funerals of Gibraltar IRA men (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Male eyewitness account of shootings and explosions among the crowd of mourners at the funerals of the three IRA men shot in Gibraltar, at Belfast’s Milltown Cemetery.
Terror attack at funerals of Gibraltar IRA men (1988)
- Genre
- Speech
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Tom King reporting to the Commons on the killing of three mourners and the injury of 68 at the funerals of the three IRA men killed in Gibraltar, at Belfast’s...
Percy Thrower obituary (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; Obituary
Obituary by Rodney Bennett of the gardening broadcaster Percy Thrower, for more than forty years the leading face and voice of British gardening on television and radio, including on LBC’s AM programme...
Nurses raise money for Third World charities (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Report by Court correspondent Dickie Arbiter on Britain’s nurses raising money for three charities for the Third World: War on Want, Oxfam and the Save the Children Fund. SCF President Princess Anne on...
Margaret Thatcher address to the Conservative Party’s central council (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher addressing the Conservative Party’s central council at a conference in Buxton. Attacking the Labour Party under Neil Kinnock; on law and order; praises Chancellor Nigel...
British soldiers killed at IRA funeral (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the murder by an IRA mob of two British soldiers, Bob Howes and Derek Wood, caught up in the funeral cortege in Andersonstown, Belfast for Kevin Brady, an IRA member killed while attempting to...
Sinn Fein reaction to British soldiers killed at IRA funeral (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Sinn Fein spokesman Danny Morrison’s reaction to Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Tom King’s statement on the murder by an IRA mob of two British soldiers Bob Howes and Derek Wood, caught up in...
British soldiers killed at IRA funeral (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the murder by an IRA mob of two British corporals, Bob Howes and Derek Wood, caught up in the funeral cortege for IRA member Kevin Brady in Andersonstown, Belfast. The victims’ Commanding...
US military deployment in Honduras (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report following the decision by President Ronald Reagan’s government to send battallions to Honduras as a military deployment exercise. A spokesman gives details of the training schedule the troops will...