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Fair Game to help towards saving rainforests (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
James Bays reports from the premiere of the film Fair Game attended by rock star Sting. It will raise money for his campaign to save the Amazon rainforests. The film features the singer’s girlfriend,...
Lockerbie relatives’ meeting (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Nick Peters reports on a meeting of relatives of Lockerbie bombing victims in a school theatre in Haddonfield, New Jersey, USA. Rows broke out over a party in Lockerbie paid for by airline Pan Am, claimed to...
NUR to strike (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
The NUR union’s leader Jimmy Knapp is forecasting strong and solid support for the forthcoming 24 hour rail strikes over pay and bargaining conditions. Opening the NUR’s annual conference in...
Summer of discontent ahead (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
TUC General Secretary Norman Willis on a possible summer of discontent as strikes are planned for the railways by the NUR, also by the TGWU and BBC unions. Comments on attitudes and strategies of union...
Guinness fraudster’s son writes book (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
James Saunders, son of Ernest Saunders, the Guinness executive facing numerous charges of fraud in the share-dealing scandal, on the book he has written Nightmare- the Ernest Saunders Story; effect of his...
TGWU votes for disarmament (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Simon Israel interviews Ron Todd, TGWU union leader on a vote which decided to continue to back unilateral nuclear disarmament despite the Labour Party changing its policy on disarmament; and how this will...
US flag burning (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Nick Peters reports on President George H.W. Bush saying he will push for an amendment to the USA Constitution to outlaw desecration of the American flag, after a ruling by the Supreme Court that flag...
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
American comedian Steve Martin co-stars with British actor Michael Caine in the film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which opens in London this week. Carol Allen reports on the film and on Steve Martin’s...
Russian defector revealed in obituary (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Nick Peters reports from Washington DC on the revelation of a Russian spy in his obituary yesterday in Russian military newspaper Red Star. Mikhail Orlov, a staff member of the KGB had grown up in Illinois...
Thatcher on EEC economic summit (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
George Matheson interviews UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher before boarding her plane back to Britain on the EEC economic summit in Madrid. She denies making concessions and says she’s still against a...