Return of Iraqi hostages

Title

Return of Iraqi hostages

Genre

News report; Interview; Press conference; News bulletin

TX Date

2 Sep 1990

Year of production

1990

Play audio

To listen to the audio files, please log in.

Duration

00:03:10

Description

Howard Hughes reads the IRN 9am news bulletin, focusing on the release of 200 women and children hostages from Baghdad who have arrived back in to Heathrow Airport. Their menfolk remain behind. Includes interviews at Heathrow with Foreign Office minister, William Waldegrave who met them on the tarmac; hostage Shane Wicket(?); American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson; Rob Hayward MP, Gulf Support Group. Other stories include press conference with UN Secretary General, Javier Perez de Cuellar on crisis talks with Iraq stalling; Australia’s first billionaire, Robert Holmes a Court dying of a heart attack aged 53; Prince Charles recovering after an operation on a broken arm.

Contributors

William Waldegrave; Jesse Jackson; Javier Perez de Cuellar; Howard Hughes; Rob Hayward; Shane Wickett(?)

Keywords

USA; Deaths; Surgery; Heathrow Airport; Conflict resolution; Diplomacy; Hostages; Royal family; Royalty; Prince Charles; Kuwait; Iraq; Gulf War (1990-1991); Saddam Hussein; Prince of Wales; Baghdad; Robert Holmes a Court; Stuart Lockwood

The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.