Collets bookshop fire bombed

Title

Collets bookshop fire bombed

Genre

Interview

TX Date

6 Jul 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:01

Description

Gareth Furby interviews eyewitnesses, Mr and Mrs Jonathan Condliffe(?) about a fire bomb attack on a branch of Collets bookshop on the Charing Cross Road in London. The arson attack is thought to be part of the campaign against Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses novel. Broadcast on LBC AM programme.

Contributors

Gareth Furby; Jonathan Condliffe(?); Mrs Jonathan Condliffe(?)

Keywords

Books; London; Crime; Fires; Terrorism; UK; Novels; Bookshops; Arson; Muslims; Salman Rushdie; Controversial literature; Collets; Satanic Verses

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