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Hong Kong spokesman on security measures as Vietnamese refugees flood in (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Hong Kong’s Secretary for Security, Lewis Davies, on reinforcements to the British colony’s security forces following an influx of refugees from Vietnam. Male interviewer not identified.
Kurt Waldheim on Vietnamese refugees (1979)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim where he makes an appeal on behalf of the Vietnamese refugees (or boat people).
Australian immigration minister on Vietnamese refugees (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with the Australian immigration minister (not identified - but poss. Michael MacKellar) where he calls for international pressure on the Vietnam Government over the issue of political refugees....
Vox pop with boat children (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; Vox pop
Vox pop with young Vietnamese refugees or boat children during a visit to Downing Street to hand in a petition calling on Britain to seek the expulsion of Vietnam from the United Nations for alleged...
Labour EEC MP on Vietnamese refugees (1979)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by Alf Lomas?, Labour EEC MP (to the European Parliament in Strasbourg?), calling for new measures to help the Vietnamese refugees.
Oil slick off Texas arrives from Mexico (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Andrew Manderstam interviews an American male naturalist (not identified) about an oil slick off the coast of Texas. Nearly 20,000 barrels of oil a day are flowing from the Mexican government’s Ixtoc 1...
Andrew Young resignation (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Andrew Manderstam reports on the resignation of Andrew Young from his post as US ambassador to the UN after a row over talks with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO). Includes excerpt from press...
Arrests in Warsaw (1979)
- Genre
- News report
Report on demonstrations and arrests in Warsaw, Poland, on the fortieth anniversary of the outbreak of war in Europe (Second World War). Male reporter not identified.
BBC exhibition banned in Poland (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with former BBC Director-General Sir Hugh Greene on the banning of a World Service exhibition in Warsaw by the Polish authorities. The exhibition was timed to coincide with the fortieth anniversary...
Brian Hayes programme - Peter Bogdanovich on Saint Jack film (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Brian Hayes interviews film director Peter Bogdanovich about his new film Saint Jack on a man trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore during the time of the Vietnam War.