Nightline

Title

Nightline

Genre

News report; Speech; Discussion; Parliamentary debate; News bulletin; Talk show; Phone-in; Advertisement; Special; Jingle; Trailer

TX Date

3 Dec 1980

Year of production

1980

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Duration

01:04:07

Description

LBC Nightline – Special Edition on Northern Ireland, presented by Mike Dickin, with LBC Parliamentary editor Peter Allen, and satellite link-up with Peter Strauss on WMCA in New York. With guests Humphrey Atkins, UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland; Professor Sean Walsh, author and New York State assemblyman. With phone-in. Broadcast during hunger strikes at the Maze Prison in Belfast and following terrorist attacks in London. Includes news bulletins (with Allan King; Marie Kinsey; Paul Davies; Dave Foster; Labour Party leader Michael Foot; David Powis, Metropolitan Police; Beryl Maw, widow of murdered man, Thomas Maw; Stephen Couch, solicitor; Robert Skidelsky – Oswald Mosley biographer); news reports; jingles; advertisements; trailers; Christmas appeal (with Dickie Arbiter); sports news; weather. Also includes start of next programme with Steve Allen.

Contributors

Paul Davies; Peter Allen; Michael Foot; Humphrey Atkins; Mike Dickin; Marie Kinsey; Steve Allen; Dickie Arbiter; Allan King; Robert Skidelsky; David Powis; Dave Foster; Peter Strauss; Sean Walsh; Beryl Maw; Stephen Couch

Keywords

USA; London; Government; Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; Ireland; UK; Conservative Party; Prisons; Terrorists; IRA; International relations; International politics; Peacebuilding; Maze Prison; Hunger; Unionism (Irish politics); Prisoners; Bombs; Belfast; Religious conflicts; Governance; Irish question

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