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Lord Home on NATO anniversary (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with former UK Prime Minister, Lord Home (formerly Alec Douglas-Home), at celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the NATO alliance. A conference is being held in Southampton against the...
Police search for missing nurse (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Pat Beasley reports on a police search for missing Cambridgeshire nurse, Harbans Gill, who disappeared after leaving Addenbrooke’s Hospital at the end of a night shift. Includes interview with Chief...
Scotland Yard child pornography squad launched (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Margaret Shiels interviews Superintendent Leslie Bennett, head of the Obscene Publications Squad, on Britain’s first special police unit to deal with child pornography and paedophilia which has been set up...
Douglas Hurd’s first day as Foreign Secretary (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Speech
Report on the first day as Foreign Secretary for Douglas Hurd. Includes press questions on his way to and excerpt from speech at the British Council about the prospects for business within the EEC and the...
Peter Imbert on inquiries into the case of the released Guildford Four (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Following the release of the Guildford Four, wrongly convicted for the Guildford pub bombings carried out by the Provisional IRA, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Peter Imbert fully supports the judicial...
Thatcher opposes Commonwealth over South African sanctions (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Political editor Peter Murphy reports from the Commonweath conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher issuing, subsequent to the agreed document, a statement opposing...
British position on South Africa (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Political editor Peter Murphy interviews Foreign Secretary John Major in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia following Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s separate statement on South Africa, subsequent to the agreed...
Observer journalist jailed in Iraq (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Observer Editor Donald Trelford on the paper’s journalist Farzad Bazoft who is being held in an Iraqi jail on charges of spying for Israel. Trelford dismisses claims Bazoft was recruited to the paper by...
IRA murder of Corporal Maheshkumar Islania in Germany (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Lay preacher Olle Tings on villagers’ reaction to the shooting dead of RAF Corporal Maheshkumar Islania and his baby daughter Nivruti outside the British air base at Wildenrath in Germany by an IRA gunman....
Inquest into death of disabled woman in squalid conditions (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Davina Payne reports on calls for a public inquiry and legislative change in light of the case of Beverly Lewis, the deaf, blind and disabled woman who died in squalor at the home she shared with her...