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  1. Demonstration against Salman Rushdie book (1989)

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    Interview; News report; Speech

    Police in riot gear were called in when violent clashes broke out during a demonstration by twenty thousand Muslims who marched on Downing Street in a protest against Salman Rushdie’s book, The Satanic...

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  2. Salman Rushdie book pulled from shelves of W. H. Smith (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Report on the arson threats that have forced W. H. Smith to withdraw The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie from its stores in Bradford. A copy was ceremonially burned by angry Muslims, forcing product manager...

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  3. British Muslims uphold fatwa (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Special; Speech

    Grant Ferrett(?) reports on the fatwa, issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini on 14/02/89 against author Salman Rushdie, being upheld by a conference of British Muslims organised by the Muslim Institute....

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  4. Salmon Rushdie not in violation of blasphemy laws (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Press conference

    The British Muslim Action Front claimed that author Salman Rushdie and his publishers should face criminal charges for blasphemy against the Muslim faith for his novel The Satanic Verses, but Lord Justice...

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  5. Salman Rushdie interview on his life, career and new novel (1995)

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    Advertisement; Discussion; Interview; Jingle; News bulletin; Trailer

    Simon Bates interviews guest on his 10am-1pm show Salman Rushdie on his life, career and first novel since The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, set in the Indian city of Bombay. Includes discussion of...

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  6. UK Muslim leader on Rushdie fatwa (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Sayed Abdul Quddus, Secretary of the Bradford Council of Mosques, on the first anniversary of the fatwa on author Salman Rushdie. Male interviewer not identified.

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  7. Yosuf Aktar Sez on Salman Rushdie’s Ramadan announcement (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Yosuf Aktar Sez of the British Muslim Action Front on the issue of novelist Salman Rushdie’s announcement - timed to coincide with the Muslim festival of Ramadan - in defiance of the fatwa issued against...

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  8. Salman Rushdie affair affects Britons held in Iran (1989)

    Genre
    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...

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  9. UK diplomats pulled out of Iran (1989)

    Genre
    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...

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  10. Salman Rushdie on BBC Radio 4, a year after death threat (1990)

    Genre
    Interview; News report

    Philip Cottrell reports on an interview with novelist Salman Rushdie (includes excerpts) that was broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme a year after the death threat against him was announced in 1989....

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