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Vandals wreck pensioners’ home (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with pensioner Olive Lane, whose Cheltenham home was wrecked by hooligans. She says the vandals have ruined her and husband Ivor’s life and she will never be able to return home. Broadcast on...
Pay vote shock for UDM (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Roy Lynk, President of the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers (UDM), on the decision by members to reject two proposed Coal Board pay offers. He says he will not resign despite the...
Evening Standard moves from Fleet Street (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Mark Percy reports on the relocation of the London Evening Standard newspaper from its traditional home in Fleet Street to new offices in Kensington. Includes interviews with Michael Hurd, head of sport;...
Duchess visits Red Cross offices after Armenian earthquake (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Gareth Furby reports from the Red Cross control room in London where the Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson has heard first hand details of the nightmare facing British rescue workers in Armenia following the...
Steve Jones show - Fiona Fullerton interview (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Steve Jones interviews actress Fiona Fullerton about her career and life and times. Fullerton also talks about the Stars Organisation for Spastics (SOS) fundraising appeal at the Royal Festival Hall.
Israeli response to Arafat proposals (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Peter Allen-Frost reports from Jerusalem on official reaction by Israel to appeals by PLO leader Yasser Arafat for talks on an independent Palestinian state, and the response by the United States. Also...
Free Nelson Mandela campaign (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Music
Gareth Furby reports on the campaign to free deputy ANC leader Nelson Mandela from jail in South Africa. In an interview his lawyer, Ismail Ayob, is admitting that the campaign to free him may have failed....
Post office shoot-out in Acton (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Mark Percy reports on a shoot-out between police and a robbery gang in Acton, West London. Includes interview with John O’Connor, Flying Squad; Thomas Ray(?), eyewitness. Two police officers were wounded...
Frank Bruno on Tyson fight (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the proposed fight between UK boxer Frank Bruno and world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson in Las Vegas on 25/02/89. Includes interviews with Frank Bruno; Mike Tyson; Don King, promoter, about the...
Big cut in Tories’ Epping Forest majority (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Paul Seagrove reports on the result of the Epping Forest by-election, won by Steven Norris, Conservative Party, but with a greatly reduced majority and a turnout of less than fifty per cent. The Democrats...