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  1. Salaman Rushdie death threat leads to record book sales (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Demand is outstripping supply of Salman Rushdie’s controversial novel The Satanic Verses following issuing of the death threat. Oni Bhattacharya? speaks to 2 booksellers (not identified) who comment on...

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Chris Mann Weekend Breakfast Show (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    Chris Mann interviews former pop star Cat Stevens, now Muslim convert Yusuf Islam, on Islam and leaving the world of pop music. He storms out of the interview when pressed on whether Salman Rushdie should be...

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  5. Iqbal Sacranie on The Satanic Verses (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Leader of the UK Action Committee on Islamic Affairs, Iqbal Sacranie speaks of Salman Rushdie and his novel The Satanic Verses and says that until the book is removed from circulation there will be no...

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  6. Is Nothing Sacred, by Salman Rushdie (1990)

    Genre
    Special; Speech

    Harold Pinter reads Is Nothing Sacred, the Herbert Reed Memorial Lecture at The ICA in London, written by Salman Rushdie who is absent due to the Iranian fatwa over The Satanic Verses which forced him to...

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  7. Rushdie withdraws Satanic paperback (1991)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on author Salman Rushdie withdrawing the paperback edition of his book, The Satanic Verses, in the hope doing so will draw a line under the outrage among Muslims claiming it was blasphemous. Rushdie...

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  8. Psychiatric nurse wins Whitbread book prize (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Sue Jameson reports on the Whitbread Book of the Year award, won by Paul Sayer, a first-time novelist and psychiatric nurse, for The Comfort of Madness.The book expected to win was The Satanic Verses by...

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  9. Anglo-French summit (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Speech

    The mini-summit of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and French President Francois Mitterrand in Paris ended with both deeming it very successful. Topics discussed included NATO, Channel Tunnel, EEC,...

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  10. Thatcher meets with German Chancellor (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Paul Rowley reports on Margaret Thatcher’s press conference following meetings with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (with excerpts). Issues covered included concerted EEC response to Iran’s death...

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