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39,247 results found for all records.
Gulf crisis needs diplomatic solution (1990)
- Genre
- Speech
An unidentified male speaks about the desirability of a diplomatic solution to the Gulf crisis rather than bloody war. Sounds as if it is recorded aboard a military aircraft.
Woman escapes from Iraq-occupied Kuwait (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
A (British?) woman (identified in original catalogue record as Hannah Ala-han) who escaped from Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait talks about how people are frightened, how Iraqi soldiers are searching for...
Bristol family return from the Gulf (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The family of Bristol airline pilot Ronald Nash has returned home after being reunited at Gatwick airport. The Captain’s wife, daughter and baby grandson were among those on the flight from Oman, after...
First women on the front line (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Interviews with two British women (Sue Pepper and Julie Cornah(?)?) from the Royal Army Medical Corps in Saudi Arabia, where they are setting up a military hospital. They talk about their equipment, when...
Crown Prince of Kuwait thanks British people for condemning Iraqi invasion (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Prime Minister and Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, has made a speech in London about the talks he had with Margaret Thatcher, ways of implementing the means of the Security...
Parliamentâs reaction to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate
Peter Russell reports on the recall of Parliament. Report covers Margaret Thatcher’s call to stop Saddam Hussein, the support of the Government by the Labour Party, Paddy Ashdown’s warning that a...
Parliament’s reaction to Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Des Fahy reports on Parliament’s reaction to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Defence Secretary Tom King talks about the possibility of sending more troops to the Gulf; Shadow Defence Secretary Martin...
Kuwait escapee talks about her experience (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
In Baghdad, Ruth Cherisson, a Lincoln woman from the second convoy of hostages to travel to Baghdad from Kuwait, speaks about trying to escape from Kuwait. She talks about being in hiding, the shooting at...
Sir Ewen Ferguson on French farmers’ anti-imports action (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Sir Ewen Ferguson, British Ambassador to France, has complained to French Interior Minister Pierre Joxe about the seriousness of the export situation in the UK, and says that the French Government are doing...
Women of the of the Army Medical Corps (1990)
- Genre
- News report
Nicky Broyd reports on three female members of the Army Medical Corps in Saudi Arabia prior to the Gulf war. Nurses Julie Cornah(?) and Sue Pepper talk about being in Saudi, the field hospital they are...