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Soviet nuclear freeze offer (1982)

Genre

News report

Report on a speech at a congress of trade unionists by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev (on 17/03/82) announcing a nuclear weapons freeze offer to the USA and calling for the limiting of nuclear weapons in...

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Peter Gordeno on Soviet tour (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview with actor, singer and dancer, Peter Gordeno, about the news that he is to tour the Soviet Union. Female interviewer not identified.

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UN meets to agree action against Iraq (1990)

Genre

News report; Speech

The five major members of the UN Security Council - Britain, France, the United States, the Soviet Union and China – are holding talks in an attempt to agree on the line of action to take against Iraq,...

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Ronald Reagan on relations with Soviets (1983)

Genre

Speech

Speech by US President Ronald Reagan about his hope to improve relations with the Soviet Union after overtures by the Soviet government and a change in leadership.

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Gorbachev appointed new Soviet Executive President (1989)

Genre

News report; Speech

Mikhail Gorbachev has consolidated his power with his election as the Soviet Union’s first Executive President, but the first session of the new-style parliament left some deputies disappointed,...

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Press face Soviet bureaucracy at summit (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

The Soviet Union welcomes 6,000 journalists and much needed foreign currency while they report on the Moscow summit, John Alcock reports. Includes interview with CBS Executive Producer Lane Bernados(?)...

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On the Jazz Beat with Mel Lewis (1988)

Drummer and bandleader Mel Lewis talks to Keith Howell during a visit to London at the end of July 1988. Mel talks about his early experiences as a percussionist in the Second World War, his work with the...

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Funeral of Soviet President Chernenko (1985)

Genre

News report; Speech; Music

Report from the funeral of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Konstantin Chernenko, on the funeral and possible...

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Soviets admit to Katyn massacre (1990)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Stefan Staniszewski, son of victim of the Katyn massacre, Hillary Zygmunt Staniszewski, reacting to an admission by the Soviet Union that they carried out the massacre of fifteen thousand...

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Major after Soviet coup collapses (1991)

Genre

Interview

Excerpt with interview with British Prime Minister John Major on the failed coup in the Soviet Union. Interviewer (not heard) is political editor Peter Murphy.

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