Auberon Waugh claims semtex benign invention
- Title
- Auberon Waugh claims semtex benign invention
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- Unknown
- Year of production
- 1988
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- Duration
- 00:01:48
- Description
- Report on remarks in his right wing magazine column by journalist and author Auberon Waugh, saying Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher should retire and that semtex is a benign invention. Follows bombing of the Conservative Party conference in Brighton in 1984. Includes interview with Waugh and MP Harry Greenway who says the remarks are in poor taste. Female reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Auberon Waugh; Harry Greenway
- Keywords
- Margaret Thatcher; Conservative Party; Political conferences; Conferences; Auberon Waugh; Journalists; Bombs; Political leaders; Explosives; Brighton
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