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Possible ban on electrical items on airlines (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Nick Peters talks to Transport Secretary Paul Channon about the possibility of banning electrical items in which explosives can be easily hidden from being carried on airlines following the Lockerbie bomb...
Thatcher meets with German Chancellor (1989)
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- News report; Press conference
Paul Rowley reports on Margaret Thatcher’s press conference following meetings with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (with excerpts). Issues covered included concerted EEC response to Iran’s death...
Salman Rushdie affair affects Britons held in Iran (1989)
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- Interview
Conservative MP Nicholas Baker, a friend of Roger Cooper held in Iran for nearly 4 years on spying charges without trial, talks about the impact that Salman Rushdie’s book and the resulting fatwa has had...
Salman Rushdie affair affects Britons held in Iran (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Paul Cooper, brother of Roger Cooper, held in Iran on spying charges for nearly 4 years without trial, talks to Lynne Mennie about the effect on Britons held there of the UK Government pulling all diplomats...
UK diplomats pulled out of Iran (1989)
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- Interview
British Charge d’affaires in Iran, Nick Brown, talks as he returns to the UK at Heathrow Airport about how the Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence on Salman Rushdie left them with no choice but to pull...
Salman Rushdie fatwa (1989)
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- News report; Interview
Paul Woodley reports on the protests outside the Iranian embassy in New York over the Iranian death sentence on British author Salman Rushdie and a counter demonstration. Alec Dubrow, President of the...
Anglo-French summit (1989)
- Genre
- News report
Tim Marshall reports from Paris on an Anglo-French summit which was wide-ranging but went into little detail. UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher flew in early to view an exhibition of paintings by Paul...
Anglo-French summit (1989)
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- News report; Speech
The mini-summit of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterrand in Paris ended with both deeming it very successful. Topics discussed included NATO, Channel Tunnel, EEC,...
Overview of Anglo-French summit (1989)
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- News report; Press conference
Tim Marshall reports from Paris for the AM programme on a news conference by UK PM Margaret Thatcher and President Francois Mitterrand after an Anglo-French summit. Includes excerpts of Thatcher speaking on...
Salaman Rushdie death threat leads to record book sales (1989)
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- Interview
Demand is outstripping supply of Salman Rushdieâs controversial novel The Satanic Verses following issuing of the death threat. Oni Bhattacharya? speaks to 2 booksellers (not identified) who comment on...