This week - Death on the Rock

Title

This week - Death on the Rock

Genre

News report; Interview; Documentary; Speech

TX Date

28 Apr 1988

Year of production

1988

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Duration

00:47:11

Description

Recording of Thames Television’s This Week programme, Death on the Rock, about the killing by the SAS of three suspected IRA terrorists in Gibraltar (06/03/88). The three victims were Danny McCann, Sean Savage and Mairead Farrell. The documentary, which includes reconstructions of the killing, was produced by Roger Bolton and presented by Jonathan Dimbleby. Includes reports by Julian Manyon; interviews with Lieutenant-Colonel George Styles; Noreen Hill, wife of Enniskillen victim, Ronnie Hill; Mairead Farrell; George Carman QC; eyewitnesses, including Josie Celecia; Carmen Proetta; Stephen Bullock; parliamentary speech by Sir Geoffrey Howe. Includes advertisements.

Contributors

Geoffrey Howe; Thames Television; Carmen Proetta; Roger Bolton; George Styles; Jonathan Dimbleby; Stephen Bullock; Josie Celecia; Julian Manyon; Noreen Hill; Ronnie Hill; Mairead Farrell; George Carman

Keywords

Deaths; Government; Terrorism; UK; Great Britain; IRA; Television programmes; Gibraltar; SAS; Death on the Rock; Mairead Farrell; Sean Savage; Danny McCann; This Week (television series)

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