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30 results found for '"Asphyxiating and poisonous gases"' in Keywords.
Roy Hattersley on recent riots (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with shadow Home Secretary Roy Hattersley on the social causes of the recent riots in the inner cities, including youth unemployment, and on police use of CS gas in Toxteth, and the provision of...
Rioting outside British embassy in Ireland (1982)
- Genre
- News report; Special
Report from the scene of rioting after a march around the British embassy in Ireland. Scenes described as they occur and are heard with police violence and tear gas and crowds throwing petrol bombs. Male...
Algarve holiday deaths - Beverley Cooper inquest verdict (1983)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the British inquest verdict on 22 year-old Beverley Cooper, one of a number of British holidaymakers who died in the Algarve, Portugal last year, which confirms she died from carbon monoxide...
Algarve holiday deaths - Interview with coroner (1983)
- Genre
- Interview
Coroner, James Turnbull following the British inquest verdict on Beverley Cooper, one of a number of British holidaymakers who died in the Algarve last year, which confirmed she died from carbon monoxide...
Suresh Joshi on Bhopal gas disaster (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Broadcaster Suresh Joshi recalls the horror of seeing the victims of the Bhopal gas leak (03/12/84). He thinks that more than 6,000 people have died, and says most people do not know what happened. The...
Douglas Hurd on Broadwater Farm riots (1985)
- Genre
- Press conference; Interview
Press interview with Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, after he visited police officers injured in the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham, London. He suggests plastic bullets and CS gas could be used against...
Broadwater Farm riots - Hurd’s response (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Home Secretary Douglas Hurd, following the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham, North London (06/10/85) where he gives his backing to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner’s decision to have...
CS gas canister let off in pub by soldiers (1987)
- Genre
- Interview
A pub landlord describes the scenes in his establishment as a canister of CS gas was let off. Royal Greenjackets soldiers were drinking in the pub, before one of them let off the canister, and have since...
Riots in South Korea (1987)
- Genre
- News report
Report from the riots in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Describes what is happening, what the police are doing, and the use of tear gas. Male reporter not identified.
World War II-Gas mask drill (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
Archive BBC broadcast by a male Irish guard (not identified) demonstrating the use of the gas mask prior to the start of the Second World War. Originally broadcast 08/03/39. The recording was broadcast on...