New Year’s Honours list

Title

New Year’s Honours list

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

31 Dec 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:04:40

Description

Lizzie Knight reports on the awards in the Queen’s New Years Honours list with honours to ordinary people for the first time. Includes interviews with Michael Bentine, comedian on his CBE; Alex Ferguson, football manager, CBE; Reg Gutteridge, boxing commentator on his OBE; Gavin Laird, general secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union (AEEU) on his knighthood; Patrick Cormack MP on not getting a knighthood; Livio Beltrami, hospital porter on his MBE.

Contributors

Michael Bentine; Patrick Cormack; Reg Gutteridge; Gavin Laird; Lizzie Knight; Alex Ferguson; Livio Beltrami

Keywords

Awards; Trade unions; Entertainers; Association football; Honours; Members of Parliament; Broadcasters; Politicians; Comedians; Sportsmen; Sports commentators

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