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Broadcasting Bill amendment (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Last week media tycoon Rupert Murdoch outbid the terrestrial European broadcasters in the battle for TV rights to the Olympics, only for his bid to be turned down in the interests of wider coverage. The...
Westminster Media Forum meets for first time (1996)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
News 97.3’s Jeff Collins was at the first meeting of the Westminster Media Forum earlier today. The forum has been set up to discuss the future of television and in particular digital broadcasting....
Kenneth Clarke on spending cuts (1996)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Kenneth Clarke, is keen to dispel rumours that he is being sidelined by right-wingers in the Cabinet, by demanding lower spending. He is speaking to the Centre for Economic...
Rail privatisation should be stopped (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker on the privatisation of the British railway network. He says the process should be put on ice, and other franchises in the pipeline must be stopped. Follows stopping of...
Douglas Hurd on Scott Inquiry (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Former UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has publicly denied there is any campaign to undermine Lord Justice Richard Scott but he says the inquiry into arms sales to Iraq was wrong to refuse full legal...
Norton-Taylor on Scott Inquiry (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Richard Norton-Taylor, a Guardian journalist who attended every day of the Scott Inquiry hearings (into arms sales to Iraq), tells Graham Leach there is no doubt a government news control operation was...
Robin Cook on Scott Report (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Labour’s foreign affairs spokesman Robin Cook has made it clear that the Opposition will push to have the Scott Report (into arms sales to Iraq) recommendations accepted. He tells parliamentary reporter...
Sir Richard Scott on Scott Report (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Sir Richard Scott had this message for his detractors in tonight’s Dispatches on Channel 4. In the clip, he says he hopes people will read his report into arms sales to Iraq, and not just accept the view...
Sir Richard Scott on Scott Report (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Sir Richard Scott is bracing himself for a rejection of part or all of his report into arms sales to Iraq. Possibly part of his interview for Dispatches, on Channel 4?
John Biffen on Scott Report (1996)
- Genre
- Interview
Earlier today in the House of Commons, Speaker Betty Boothroyd told the Government that she thought it should give the Opposition access to the Scott Report (into sales of arms to Iraq) in advance of its...