20 years of parliamentary broadcasting

Title

20 years of parliamentary broadcasting

Genre

Speech; Discussion; Parliamentary debate; Special

TX Date

9 Jun 1995

Year of production

1995

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Duration

00:04:49

Description

Political Editor Ed Boyle looks back over 20 years of parliamentary broadcasting, the changes and the effects of broadcasting on Commons behaviour. Includes clip from one of the first live parliamentary broadcasts on the radio in 1975 with Ed Boyle commentating, and a collection of clips from over the last twenty years, with speakers including Michael Foot, Margaret Thatcher, Bernard Bernard Weatherill and a drunk Alan Clark.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Michael Foot; Ed Boyle; Bernard Weatherill; Alan Clark (MP)

Keywords

Parliament; Radio; Radio programmes

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