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39,247 results found for all records.
Paddy Ashdown on European elections (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Murphy interviews Social and Liberal Democrats leader, Paddy Ashdown, about his party’s chances in the forthcoming European elections. He comments on the other parties including the Greens and the...
Dangerous dogs in UK (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with RSPCA chief inspector Jan Eachus, on an increase in attacks by dangerous dogs in the UK. After attacks by Rottweilers, there are fears that breeders may be trying to introduce two more...
David Owen on European elections (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with SDP leader, Dr David Owen, about his party’s chances in the forthcoming European elections. He is asked why, when the Green Party is fielding seventy-nine candidates, is the SDP only...
Writer, Carla Lane, on receiving OBE (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Carla Lane, playwright and television writer, speaking about receiving an OBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Male reporter not identified.
European elections - reaction to results (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Peter Spencer reports on the UK results in the 1989 European elections, in which the Labour Party claimed victory after taking ten seats from the Conservatives. The Greens took fifteen percent of the vote,...
LBC drama receives awards (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Richard Dallyn interviews Tim Crook and Richard Shannon of Independent Radio Drama Productions about success for LBC radio’s drama department at the International Radio Festival in New York, where they won...
Anti-Rushdie rally turns violent in Bradford (1989)
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- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Dee Marshall reports on violence in Bradford when fighting broke out between white youths and Muslims protesting against the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel, The Satanic Verses. Includes crowd noise;...
UK scientists say they cannot duplicate cold fusion (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Oni Bhattacharya interviews Michael Kenwood, editor of the New Scientist magazine, about research at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Harwell laboratory which proved that hopes that cold nuclear fusion...
Journalist ordered to leave China (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Vernon Mann, ITN reporter, about his deportation order from the Chinese authorities after covering rioting in the provincial city of Chengdu. Mann and his camera crew had been under house...
Bank robbery in Oxfordshire (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Michael O’Neill reports from Oxfordshire on a police manhunt for an armed gang, who kidnapped the families of two bank employees Angela Ward and Mandy Saunders in Turweston on the Northamptonshire border...