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Debate on Chancellor Nigel Lawson’s resignation (1989)
- Genre
- Speech; Parliamentary debate
Excerpt from a House of Commons debate involving Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Labour leader, Neil Kinnock. They clashed over the question of Chancellor Nigel Lawson’s resignation. Thatcher told the...
Clapham rail crash - BR chief reacts to report (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with British Rail Chairman Sir Robert Basil (Bob) Reid, following the publication of the report from the inquiry into the Clapham rail disaster. The report on the train crash, which killed 35 and...
Deal Marines’ funeral - Speech by Commandant General (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by Lieutenant General Sir Martin Garrod, Commandant General of the Royal Marines, in which he brands the IRA, thugs, extortionists, torturers, murderers and cowards - in fact, the scum of the earth....
Deal Marines’ funeral - Parade (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Vox pop; Speech
Clayre Gribben reports on the funeral of bandsmen killed in the bomb attack on the Royal Marines’ barracks in Deal, Kent (22/09/89). Includes reaction of female member of the public (not identified);...
Ayatollah Khomeini in Paris (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Archive recording of the Iranian spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khomeini (Ruhollah Khomeini), talking (in Farsi?) outside his Paris home prior to his return to Iran after his exile (01/80). He died on 03/06/89.
Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Archive recording of the Iranian spiritual leader, Ayatollah Khomeini (Ruhollah Khomeini), speaking (in Farsi?) after his return to Iran from exile in France. Includes English translation and chanting of...
Ferdinand Marcos on wife’s shoes (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Ted Koppel (ABC) interviews former Filipino president, Ferdinand Marcos, on the US Nightline television programme (04/04/86). Marcos talks about his wife Imelda Marcos’s massive shoe collection. The...
Marcos speech prior to coup (1989)
- Genre
- Press conference; Speech
Archive press statement by Filipino President, Ferdinand Marcos, saying that he will never stand down (24/02/86). The statement came just before he was ousted from the presidency and was forced to flee to...
Death of Ferdinand Marcos - Doctor (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a male doctor (not identified) at Honolulu Hospital following the death of exiled former Filipino President, Ferdinand Marcos, at the age of seventy-two.
Margaret Thatcher on the environment (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
John Allen reports on a speech by UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, to the United Nations in New York (08/11/89), in which she warned of the environmental dangers threatening the world. She called for a...