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Black soldier makes history (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Mother of Mark Campbell, the first black soldier ever to join the Elite Household Cavalry speaks out about her pride in seeing her son don the Queens uniform.
Black soldier makes history (1995)
- Genre
- Speech
Mother of Mark Campbell, the first black soldier ever to join the elite Household Cavalry speaks out about her pride in seeing her son don the Queens uniform.
Black soldier makes history (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
The mother and father of Mark Campbell give their reaction and show their pride in their son, on the day of his passing out parade as he becomes the first black member of the elite Household Cavalry....
Railtrack poor safety record to be exposed (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Robert Allen reports on a leaked Government memo warning of the danger of another Clapham-style train disaster and about the poor safety record of Railtrack. includes interviews with Labour transport...
Fifty years after Japanese surrender in WWII (1995)
- Genre
- News report
Nick Wood reports on a memorial service in Tokyo, Japan to their war dead on the fiftieth anniversary of their surrender at the end of the Second World War. Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama made a statement...
Fifty years after Japanese surrender in WWII (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Nick Wood reports on the Japanese surrender fifty years ago that brought the Second World War to an end. Includes speeches by President Harry Truman calling for Japan to surrender and announcing surrender;...
Japanese apology for WWII actions (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
The Japanese Prime Minister’s apology to former allied POWs has not been enough to convince veterans here who’ve vowed to continue a fight for compensation. Arthur Titherington, who was interned in...
POW’s await apology from Japan for mistreatment (1995)
- Genre
- Speech
Ann Levick, who was a prisoner at the hands of the Japanese fifty years ago is unhappy with the apology for treatment of allied POWs in the Second World War which was a personal one from the Prime Minister...
Royal British Legion commemorate the dead (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Former POWs held by the Japanese in the Second World War have been allowed to lay a wreath inside London’s County Hall. Initially, its Japanese owners had refused to allow veterans inside the building, but...
Royal British Legion commemorate the dead (1995)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
It is fifty years since the Japanese surrendered and the end of the Second World War. Two Royal British Legion officials, Graham Downing and Bert Reeves, are interviewed on being allowed into London’s...