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27 results found for '"Ivor Stanbrook"' in Contributors.

  • Father Ryan extradition fails (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Paul Rowley reports on politicians’ reaction to the Irish Attorney General refusing to extradite IRA suspect Father Patrick Ryan because of fears he wouldn’t get a fair trial in the UK. And on likely...

  • Death on the Rock documentary cleared in inquiry (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Thames Television This Week documentary Death on the Rock, about the killings of 3 IRA members on Gibraltar, has been mainly cleared of Government accusations by an independent inquiry led by Lord...

  • Parliamentary debate on energy bill, Nazi prosecution and Westland scandal (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Peter Spencer reports from Westminster, prior to a Cabinet reshuffle, on a debate on the privatisation of the electricity industry amid revelations ageing Magnox nuclear power stations are to remain under...

  • Judge Pickles calls for drugs to be legalised (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Rosy Kempston reports on comments by the outspoken judge, James Pickles, calling for drugs to be legalised – he has also said the police waste their time harassing people for drug offences. There are...

  • Guildford Four release (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the legal implications of the decision the Guildford Four were wrongfully convicted of IRA pub bombings 15 years ago. Includes interview with Lord Scarman, Leslie Scarman on legal implications and...

  • Peter Brooke says Sinn Fein talks possible (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Chairman of the Conservative Northern Ireland Committee Ivor Stanbrook on the remarks made by Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Brooke that talks with Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, may be...

  • Clockwork orange covert operation (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Elena Curti reports on an alleged covert British security services project, codenamed Clockwork Orange, in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. The events follow a decision to launch an inquiry into the dismissal...

  • Ivor Stanbrook on South Africa sanctions (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Conservative MP, Ivor Stanbrook, backing Nelson Mandela’s call to UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, to stay away from South Africa, and to maintain economic sanctions, while apartheid is...

  • Ivor Stanbrook calls for redrawing of Irish border (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Following the explosion of two IRA proxy bombs killing 6 soldiers in Northern Ireland Conservative MP Ivor Stanbrook explains his idea for the policy to end IRA violence - redrawing the boundary between...

  • IRA Christmas ceasefire (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Chairman of the Conservative Party Backbench Committee on Northern Ireland Ivor Stanbrook on the three day Christmas ceasefire by the IRA. Welcoming the announcement but arguing the ceasefire is for...