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Michael Heseltine on economic strategy (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Environment Minister, Michael Heseltine discusses economic strategy and the inner cities. He also responds to the suggestion by former cabinet minister John Biffen that Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher is...
Douglas Hurd on law and order policy (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd answers criticism levelled at him by Shadow Home Secretary, Roy Hattersley over issues surrounding electronic tagging, the end of the right to silence, and his green paper. He...
Cecil Parkinson on coal privatisation (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Energy Secretary, Cecil Parkinson speaks to Peter Murphy about the Conservatives’ plans to privatise the coal industry after the next election. He discusses the difficulties that privatisation poses and...
Nurses demonstrate outside Conservative Party Conference (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Vox pop
Angry nurses protested outside the Conservative Party Conference after Health Secretary, Kenneth Clarke refused to meet union leaders about a re-grading of their pay scale. Elena Curti’s report includes...
Sport for SportAid charity goes into liquidation (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Sport for SportAid Limited - the commercial arm of the SportAid charity - has gone into liquidation owing millions of pounds. SportAid organiser Simon Dring blames the postal strike but creditors have been...
Princess Diana on family values (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Princess Diana has been President of the charity, Barnardo’s for four years and speaking at the annual meeting in London she stresses the importance of traditional family values, a sentiment echoed by both...
Prince Charles on hurricane damage to trees (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales has been telling conservationists at the headquarters of the National Trust that there is a lot more work to be done to repair the damage caused in last October’s hurricane....
Kenneth Clarke on nurses’ pay package (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Health Secretary, Kenneth Clarke discusses the new pay package for nurses worth 140 million pounds - the equivalent of a 17.9 percent increase. He says that criticisms of the deal raised by Robin Cook and...
Carbon dating proves Turin Shroud medieval (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Carbon dating of the Turin Shroud has shown that it cannot have been the sheet in which the body of Christ was laid after crucifixion. Leader of the Oxford testing, Professor Teddy Hall revealed that it was...
British Government ban IRA and Sinn Fein from TV and radio (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams gives his reaction to the British Government’s banning of Sinn Fein members or IRA sympathisers speaking on television or radio. Interviewer not heard. Original catalogue...