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Parliament votes on embryo testing (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Kevin Murphy reports on MPs’ vote (by a large majority in a free vote) to allow experiments on embryos for up to fourteen days after fertilisation. During the debate, Plaid Cymru’s Dafydd Wigley recalls...
American hostage Robert Polhill released from Lebanon (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
It has been revealed that American Robert Polhill is the one of three hostages being freed from Beirut. His son Brian Polhill comments. President George H. W. Bush turns people’s minds to the remaining...
Harriet Harman on MI5 case ruling (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour MP Harriet Harman and Neil Kinnock’s former press secretary Patricia Hewitt have won a human rights ruling against the British internal security service, MI5, by whom they had been classified as...
David Frogett tells how he identified baby snatcher (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Janet Griffiths, who kidnapped baby Alexandra Griffiths from a maternity ward in St Thomas’ Hospital, London, has been committed. Dr David Frogett, who tipped off police, is interviewed. Male interviewer...
Gruinard Island returned to residents (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
World War II has at last come to an end for a small island off the north-west corner of Scotland. Gruinard was requisitioned by the Ministry of Defence for wartime experiments in germ warfare, and has since...
Parliament debates abortion time limits (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Coverage of debate over abortion time limits. Health Minister, Virginia Bottomley; Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe; Labour MP Alice Mahon; Labour MP David Alton; Conservative MP Teresa Gorman; and Liberal...
Prince Charles launches Volunteers scheme (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales has launched a new volunteer scheme for young people, called Volunteers. He gives a speech at St James’s Palace, expressing concern for recent social unrest, and hopes to...
Margaret Thatcher on European monetary union (1990)
- Genre
- Speech
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher addresses an audience (poss. the House of Commons) on European monetary and economic union and political union.
Margaret Thatcher remembers Gallipoli’s fallen (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; Music; News report
Hannah O’Sullivan reports on UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s visit to Gallipoli to pay tribute to three hundred thousand men who died there seventy-five years ago. Includes Thatcher’s reflections...
Inquiry into Strangeways Prison siege begins (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
James Matthews reports from Strangeways on the aftermath of the prison siege. Lord Justice (Harry) Woolf speaks to reporters at Strangeways about the inquiry he will lead. There is a speech by Strangeways’...