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888 results found for '"Demonstrations"' in Keywords.
Betty Williams on women’s peace movement (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Vivian White interviews Mrs Betty Williams about the women’s peace movement, which grew up in the wake of the deaths of the Maguire children in West Belfast. Williams denies being an organiser of the...
Liverpool peace rally (1976)
- Genre
- Interview; Music; News report; Speech
Unidentified male reports from the first peace rally to be held outside of Ireland - in Liverpool. The rally, attended by some 5,000 people, was organised by Muriel Young; her sister-in-law of Betty...
London peace rally (1976)
- Genre
- Interview; Music; Speech
Jane Ewart-Biggs speaks in an interview about her late husband’s (UK ambassador to Ireland killed by IRA landmine) hopes for peace in Ireland, and how she hopes she can turn the waste of his death into...
Neil Kinnock takes firm line with hecklers (1976)
- Genre
- Speech
Albert Booth MP (Secretary of State for Employment?) trying to make a speech on the eve of the TUC Conference. He can barely be heard over hostile chanting; Neil Kinnock takes a firm line with the hecklers,...
Albert Booth on abandoned TUC meeting (1976)
- Genre
- Interview
Albert Booth, Secretary of State for Employment, is interviewed by Jill Lourie after a TUC meeting in which he was heckled was abandoned.
Angolan mercenaries demo (1976)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on demonstration by families of British mercenaries now imprisoned in Angola, to demand more action from the government to get them released. Four mercenaries were recently executed. Interviews with...
Boris Ponomarev visit (1976)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report from the scene on demonstrations outside hotel protesting about visit of Boris Ponomarev, Soviet politician, to the UK (shouting heard as the Russian delegation comes out after lunch); interview with...
Boris Ponomarev on demonstrations (1976)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
George Mackintosh reports on the reaction (via an interpreter) of Soviet politician Boris Ponomarev, to demonstrations during his visit to the UK.
Labour conference (1977)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the Labour Party conference, 1977. Looks at Right to Work demonstration outside the conference and issue of unemployment and why the conference has been rather quiet and low key. The next election...
National Front march (1977)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on violence at a National Front march and counter-demonstration in Lewisham, south London (13/08/77). Includes interview with National Front spokesman Martin Webster; interview with Socialist Workers...