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News Flashes from Round the World: London: Ballet Star Diplomat

Date released

21 Mar 1955

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

2213

NoS ID

072327

Story no

3 / 10

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet

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Diplomat’s wife escapes gunfire in Beijing (1989)

Genre

Interview

The home of a British diplomat in Beijing has been hit by machine gun fire. A stray bullet shattered a window of a flat in the diplomatic compound. Pat Farr, the wife of a naval attache, was in the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Matthews Interview: Sir Nicholas Henderson, former British Ambassador (1983)

Mike Matthews talks to Sir Nicholas [Nico] Henderson, former British Ambassador. Born 1919, he talks about his career as a diplomat and writer. He worked and lived in several countries including Poland, West...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

US Diplomat is Branded a Red Spy

Date released

26 Jan 1950

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

50/8

NoS ID

103296

Story no

5 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

At the most publicised US trial since war’s end, Alger Hiss, former High State Department official, is found guilty of perjury and branded a red spy.

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Diplomat Edward Chaplin kidnapped (1987)

Genre

Interview

Interview with UK Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, threatening diplomatic sanctions against Iran if an apology and explanation is not forthcoming regarding the abduction and charging of diplomat, Edward...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Man shot in London by Cuban diplomat likely an MI5 agent (1988)

Genre

News report; Interview

Linda Duffin reports on the shooting of a man in London by Cuban diplomat Carlos Medina Perez. The man seen running from outside the flat of Medina Perez, with blood running from a wound to his hand was...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

They Wed in Amsterdam

Date released

13 Mar 1966

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

66/21

NoS ID

111993

Story no

4 / 4

Extras

1 film clip

Princess Beatrix, heir to the Dutch throne marries German diplomat, Claus von Amsberg in a glittering ceremony in Amsterdam, attended by heads of many nations.

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Falklands war - diplomat on leaving Argentina (1982)

Genre

Interview

Interview with a male diplomat (poss. Anthony Williams, British ambassador in Buenos Aires) about UK embassy staff being forced to leave Argentina following the invasion of the Falkland Islands. Male...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

John Chaffey on Syrian diplomat squatter (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with John Chaffey on the eviction from his flat in Kensington, west London, of squatter and Syrian diplomat Ahmed Walid Rajab (along with his family). Female interviewer not identified.

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Syrian diplomat squatting in London (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with John Chaffey and Suzanne Chaffey, about a Syrian diplomat named Ahmed Walid Rajab, squatting in their Kensington flat along with his wife and family. Male interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio