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Events in the Middle East

Date released

15 Sep 1941

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

41/74

NoS ID

099010

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Including - US tanks arrive in the Middle East. Field Marshal Smuts arrives in the Western Desert to see his troops in the front line. Return of British and Imperial troops in the front line. Return of...

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Terror in Moscow (2003)

Subject

Geography; Politics & government

Documentary about the siege in a Moscow theatre in October 2002 when Chechen rebels held the terrified audience hostage for 57 hours. It all ended in controversial circumstances when Putin ordered in his...

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Why we Love Shakespeare: Elizabeth Dennehy (2023 Audio)

Series

Teenager’s Take on Shakespeare, A

Podcast hostage by American teenager, Annabelle Higgins, which explores her love of her Shakespeare. In this edition she talks to actor Elizabeth Dennehy about text and performance.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions Online

Hostage weight loss (1991)

Genre

Interview

Male speaker describing another man who has lost weight, possibly released hostage John McCarthy on fellow hostage Terry Waite. Interviewer only heard laughing, not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Sparkes Homecoming; Hostage released from Iraq - nd [1975-1986]

An interview with the hostage Sparkes talking abaout his experience during the ordeal in Iraq. He is deeply thankful and greatful to all those who helped him to be released. [Box 3]

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Celebrity interview (1987)

aka: Bob Holness in conversation with Lady Antonia Fraser

An interview with Lady Antonia Fraser, bestselling historical author talking about her career and her latest novel, ‘Your Royal Hostage’.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Wife on Tehran hostage crisis (1980)

Genre

Interview

Interview with the wife of one of the American embassy staff held hostage in Tehran (wife and hostage not identified - poss. a Christian clergyman) on spending Easter without her husband. Female interviewer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Lebanese hostage crisis-US reaction (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop

Paul Woodley reports on US reaction to the hostage situation in the Lebanon following the killing of hostage Colonel William R. Higgins. Includes interviews with Peggy Say, sister of hostage journaslist...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Thatcher condemns hostage taking (1991)

Genre

Interview

Interview with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who condemns hostage taking in the Middle East, following the release of British hostage John McCarthy (on 08/08/91). Sound quality poor. Interviewer...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Freed hostage on captivity (1991)

Genre

Press conference

Through an interpreter, a French hostage (not identfiied) discusses his release, claiming the captors treated him and fed him well, with plenty of human contact. No further context supplied.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio