Is GLC to ban performers who’ve visited South Africa?

Title

Is GLC to ban performers who’ve visited South Africa?

Genre

Interview

TX Date

6 Jan 1984

Year of production

1984

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Duration

00:01:28

Description

Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC), Ken Livingstone,, talks about reports in the Evening Standard, including one by comedian Spike Milligan, that artists who have performed in South Africa will be banned from performing in the council’s theatres (Milligan has worked there in South Africa). Female interviewer not identified (poss. Jo Andrews).

Contributors

Ken Livingstone; Jo Andrews?

Keywords

Actors; Performers; Newspapers; South Africa; Apartheid; GLC; Councils; Sportsmen; Sportswomen; Spike Milligan; Evening Standard

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