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  1. Harold Pinter gains literature award (1995)

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    Interview

    Harold Pinter, playwright, has been awarded the David Cohen Prize for British Literature. At the ceremony, friend and colleague Salman Rushdie says a major literature honour in Pinter’s own country was...

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  2. Geoffrey Howe on Salman Rushdie affair (1989)

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    Interview

    Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe talks to John Fraser about the Government’s decision to join Europe in condemning Iran and closing its mission in Tehran in response to the issuing of the fatwa on author...

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  3. Salman Rushdie on W. H. Smith’s withdrawal of his novel (1989)

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    Interview

    Author Salman Rushdie is interviewed on the decision of bookstore chain W. H. Smith to remove his new book, The Satanic Verses, from its shelves in Bradford due to protests by and threats from Muslim groups....

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  4. 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...

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  5. Muslims’ anger at Salman Rushdie novel (1989)

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    Interview

    Tens of thousands of Muslims will take to the streets of London tomorrow for a massive demonstration against the controversial Salman Rushdie novel, The Satanic Verses. Muslims believe the book is...

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  6. Mohammed Fayyaz on International Guerillas (1990)

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    Interview

    Following a ban on video sales of the Pakistani film International Guerillas, in which Salman Rushdie is shown torturing and murdering Muslims before himself being killed, the film’s distributor, Mohammed...

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  7. 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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  8. Salmon Rushdie interview on Kaleidoscope (1990)

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    Interview; Special; Speech

    Interview on the BBC Radio 4, Kaleidoscope programme (presented by Paul Allen) with writer, Salman Rushdie. The author talks about his life and work, and the ethics of being a writer. This interview was...

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  9. 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...

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  10. Salman Rushdie fatwa renewed (1990)

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    News report

    Mike Theodoulou reports from Nicosia, Cyprus, on a renewal of the fatwa from Iran against author Salman Rushdie over his Satanic Verses novel by the new Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a possible resulting...

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