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Budget VAT on fuel reaction (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Parliamentary debate; Interview; Speech
Political correspondent Kevin Murphy reports on concern over VAT being added to domestic fuel as announced in the Budget and its effects on pensioners and those less well off. Includes Commons speeches by...
Gordon Brown reacts to Tory tax increases (1993)
- Genre
- Interview
Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown accuses the government of cynically breaking its election promises by raising taxes, in particular extending VAT to domestic fuel, in the recent Budget. Brown says Chancellor...
Row over BBC director-general remaining freelance (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Mark Phillips reports on a speech by BBC Director-General Sir Michael Checkland (with excerpts) at a lunch in honour of his retirement at the Royal Television Society, criticising new Director General John...
Norman Lamont defends budget tax increases (1993)
- Genre
- Press conference
Chancellor Norman Lamont speaks to press after he unveiled the latest Budget. He defends tax increases despite election promises not to increase tax and says he is not worried about losing his job, but...
British health worker on conditions in Bosnia (1993)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with World Health Organisation physician Dr Simon Mardell(?) who was recently in Eastern Bosnia, where he saw people massacred after unrelenting Serbian military attacks. He describes the carnage...
Bomb attacks in Warrington (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop; Speech
David Addis reports on IRA bomb attacks in a central Warrington shopping centre. Eyewitness accounts from Nicola Wheatley and Mike Rondo(?); David Todhunter from the local ambulance service on the...
Kenneth Branagh picks up prestigious award (1993)
- Genre
- Speech
Acceptance speech by actor Kenneth Branagh, who was awarded the Michael Balcon award for his contribution to cinema at the BAFTA awards last night.
Emma Thompson BAFTA acceptance speech (1993)
- Genre
- Speech
Acceptance speech from Emma Thompson after being awarded with the BAFTA for best actress for her role in Howards End.
Woody Allen-Mia Farrow court proceedings (1993)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Paul Woodley reports on the court case involving Woody Allen, facing the charge of abusing ex-wife Mia Farrow’s 7 year-old adopted daughter, Dylan. Woody Allen denies abuse outside a specialist child abuse...
King’s Road hammer killing (1993)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The Angela Rippon Drivetime programme in which Peter Deeley reports back from the scene on the case of a killer in Chelsea who battered a 20-year-old sales assistant, Nisha Sheth to death in front of her...