Veteran ends hunger strike
- Title
- Veteran ends hunger strike
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 13 Mar 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:02:09
- Description
- 70 year-old war veteran Andy Burgess talks about his hunger strike over Prince Philip attending the funeral of Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, why he has ended it after receiving a letter from the Queen and whether he feels he achieved anything by it. Taken from Swansea Sound. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Swansea Sound; Andy Burgess
- Keywords
- Political protests; Demonstrations; Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip; Funerals; Royal family; Second World War (1939-1945); Royalty; Japan; Hunger; Veterans (Armed Forces); Emperor Hirohito
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