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Black Sheep of Whitehall, The (1984 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 27 min.

On 23rd March, 1984, a young British civil servant was sentenced to six months in prison for disclosing secrets to a daily newspaper. She maintained that revealing the documents, which dealt with the arrival...

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Sarah Tisdall’s parents on daughter’s jail sentence (1984)

Genre

Interview

Clerical officer Sarah Tisdall’s parents, Dr Michael Tisdall and his wife Jennifer, speak about their daughter’s imprisonment for leaking Government documents to the Guardian newspaper. They also talk...

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IRN Review of 1984 - nd [1984]

IRN Review of 1984 - nd [1984]. Some reports also on AV769/653/S1, Track 5. Miners dispute. Bombing of Grand Hotel Brighton during Tory Party Conference. Discontent within Tory Party: proposed aboltion of...

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Sarah Tisdall prosecution for leaks (1984)

Genre

Speech

Parliamentary speech by Attorney General Sir Michael Havers on his decision to prosecute and the uphold the appeal relating to the conviction of Sarah Tisdall, former Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)...

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Guardian editor angry at jailing of Sarah Tisdall (1984)

Genre

Interview

Peter Preston, editor of the Guardian newspaper, speaks of his shock at civil servant Sarah Tisdall’s six-month jail sentence after she leaked British Government documents to the paper. He also criticises...

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Sarah Tisdall on prison sentence (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report

Civil servant Sarah Tisdall is interviewed before starting her six-month prison sentence for leaking Government documents. She plans to appeal. Labour MP, David Winnick is supporting her and wants a review...

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Official secrets act purpose (1984)

Genre

News report

Tim Crook? reports on the tenets of Official Secrets Act of 1911, and its current application in relation to the Sarah Tisdall case. Foreign and Commonwealth Office clerical officer Tisdall leaked documents...

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Guardian accused of threatening national security (1984)

Genre

Interview

Peter Preston, editor of the Guardian newspaper, speaks of his regrets over the publication of a document sent by Foreign and Commonwealth Office clerical officer Sarah Tisdall, about US cruise missiles...

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Official Secrets Act (1984)

Genre

News report

Tim Crook reports on the Official Secrets Act, the way it is used, and how it has been kept on the statute books by successive governments despite judges’ recommendations. Includes comment on the trial of...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Labour left wing conference (1984)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the Labour Party left wing conference’s support for illegally striking miners and condemnation of police handling of pickets. Other issues discussed were the Sarah Tisdall case (clerical officer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio