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39,247 results found for all records.
Trinity College race (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Special
Report on a race for charity around the Great Court at Trinity College, Cambridge, between athletes Sebastian Coe and Steve Cram, recreating the scene in the film, Chariots of Fire. Interviews with Sebastian...
Childline anniversary (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Kevin Mosley interviews television presenter, Esther Rantzen on the second anniversary of the Childline charity which she helped found; success of the helpline; comments on Cleveland child abuse scandal;...
Blood Brothers stars interviewed (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; Music
Interview with Kiki Dee and Con O’Neil, stars of Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers at the Albery Theatre in London. Interview on The Night is Young - presenter not identified (poss. Steve Allen).
Suzanne Fageol defies Church (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Rodney Bennett reports on the case of an American female priest, Rev Suzanne Fageol, who has vowed to go on celebrating communion in defiance of the wishes of the Church of England. Includes recording of...
Maldives coup (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview (on the AM programme) with a British diplomat in Sri Lanka, Jack Jones, on an invasion and coup on the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean, where up to two-hundred people are feared to have died in...
Margaret Thatcher speech in Poland (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Peter Murphy reports from Poland on a speech by UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. On the eve of her meeting with Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa, the Prime Minister used a formal dinner to tell her...
Margaret Thatcher in Poland (1988)
- Genre
- News report
Peter Murphy reports from the port of Gdansk, Poland, on the nosiy welcome for UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, from supporters of the banned trade union, Solidarity which she has spoken in support of....
David Hockney speaks to press (1988)
- Genre
- Press conference
Press conference with British pop artist David Hockney. Among the topics discussed are Hockney’s decision to leave England for the US where he now lives in Los Angeles; his new exhibition which he is...
GCHQ ban trade unionists (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with civil servant trade unionist Sally Denny who is one of a delegation to meet Home Secretary Douglas Hurd following the dismissal of 4 GCHQ workers for being members of a trade union. There are...
Tories plan university vouchers (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Richard Bestic interviews Jack Straw on a leaked Government paper describing plans to reform universities that shows the government is planning to introduce vouchers which would help those with lots of...