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Capping powers used on councils to hold down poll tax rises (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Havovi Todd reporting on Environment Secretary Chris Patten’s use of capping powers to hold down poll tax rises, and Labour-run Haringey Council’s decision to challenge its reduced charge. Leader of the...
Government decision to give up golden share in Britoil (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Sally Arthy reporting on the Government’s decision to give up the golden share in Britoil that it retained after British Petroleum acquired the company. Energy Minister Peter Morrison’s statement in the...
Peter Morrison on Government decision to give up golden share in Britoil (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Energy Minister Peter Morrison defending the Government’s decision to give up the golden share in Britoil that it retained after British Petroleum acquired the company. Morrison confirming that BP had met...
Roger King on Patricia Cahill and Karyn Smith case (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview on teenagers Patricia Cahill and Karyn Smith, who are being held in a prison in Thailand for smuggling heroin. Birmingham MP Roger King speaking to Peter Russell about his meeting with Foreign...
Berlin performance of The Wall (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the performance of the rock opera, The Wall at the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin to raise cash for the charity, the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. Former leader of Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, on...
John Badenoch on report into contamination of water supply (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
A Department of the Environment report into the contamination of the mains water supply by cryptosporidium, following recent outbreaks of severe diarrhoea. Committee Chairman John Badenoch on drinking water...
Gerald Kaufman on British hostages in Lebanon (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Shadow Foreign Secretary Gerald Kaufman on his forthcoming visit to Damascus to see whether the Syrian Government has any information on the condition of the British hostages John McCarthy, Brian Keenan and...
Mohammed Fayyaz on International Guerillas (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Following a ban on video sales of the Pakistani film International Guerillas, in which Salman Rushdie is shown torturing and murdering Muslims before himself being killed, the film’s distributor, Mohammed...
Arthur Scargill on NUM writ (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Reaction from President of the National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill, on being served a high court writ at NUM headquarters restraining him from disposing of cash donated by Soviet miners to the...
Interview with actor Martin Landau (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Carol Allen interviewing actor Martin Landau about the film Crimes and Misdemeanors, written and directed by Woody Allen, in which Landau stars. Discussion of the Jewish nature of the film and also its...