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Argentine traps left in Goose Green (1982)

Genre

Interview; News report

BBC’s Robert Fox reports on the problems being caused by traps and mines left in Goose Green, Falkland Islands by Argentine soldiers. Argentine Prisoners of war are being used to clear the booby traps....

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Inquiry into Jonathan Zito murder by schizophrenic (1994)

Genre

Interview

Jean Ritchie QC led the independent inquiry into the care and treatment of Christopher Clunis, a schizophrenic who murdered Jonathan Zito at Finsbury Park tube station in 1992. She speaks about the...

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Paul McCartney announces US tour dates (1989)

Genre

News report; Press conference

Paul Woodley reports from a news conference in New York where former Beatle Paul McCartney announced details of his American concert tour dates. He also revealed that he is unhappy with with fellow artist...

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Margaret Thatcher disgusted at EC over Bosnia (1993)

Genre

News report; Interview

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, on the BBC’s Six O’Clock News, urges the European community and NATO to help stop the civil war in Eastern Europe and bomb Serbian military targets....

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Recording from cockpit of Tornado on maiden bomb run (1991)

Genre

Discussion; Special

Recording from the cockpit of an RAF Tornado on a bomb run in Iraq. Squadron Leader Bill Hartree and his navigator Wes Wesley, both on their first combat mission (the destruction of an airfield), are heard....

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Protest demonstration against National Front meeting (1979)

Genre

Interview

Unidentified male senior police officer (poss. Alan Goodson, Chief Constable of Leicestershire) on injuries caused to police officers by anti-National Front demonstrators (outside Islington Town Hall?)....

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Christopher Dunphy on Battle for Goose Green (1982)

Genre

News report; Press conference

Paul Maurice reports on the battles for Port Darwin and Goose Green on the Falkland Islands. Speaking at a press conference, Colonel Christopher Dunphy(?) comments on the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert...

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Focus: The Thomas Hardy Collection (1986)

Sean Street visits Dorchester Library to see the unique set of items owned and by Thomas Hardy. He talks to Deputy Librarian Ian Lewis who explains how this Special Collection started. It is a huge Catalogue...

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Autistic son given overdose (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report

Angus Moorat reports from Reading Crown Court where a housewife from Berkshire has been describing how she tried to kill her autistic son. Judith Jones went through a catalogue of personal tragedy last...

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Salman Rushdie on fatwa (1992)

Genre

Interview

Extract from an interview with author Salman Rushdie in which he says that he has paid a high price for publishing The Satanic Verses. The 44 year-old writer has been in hiding with a round-the-clock guard...

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