Thatcher G7 summit visit

Title

Thatcher G7 summit visit

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

16 Jul 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:47

Description

Peter Spencer reports from Paris on Margaret Thatcher’s visit for the G7 Economic Summit and chilly relations with the French, including extracts of a press conference with Margaret Thatcher denying having experienced a diplomatic slight and interviewed about her comments on human rights and the French Revolution. For AM radio programme.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Peter Spencer

Keywords

Politics; Human rights; Margaret Thatcher; Press; France; Mass media; Diplomacy; Summits (meetings); Paris; AM (radio programme); French Revolution (1789-1799)

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