Northern Ireland documentary row
- Title
- Northern Ireland documentary row
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- Jul 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:03:08
- Description
- Report on attempts to ban a BBC documentary entitled Real Lives: The Edge Of The Union about the problems of political extremism in Northern Ireland, as seen through the eyes of local political leaders, Martin McGuinness of Sinn Fein and Unionist Gregory Campbell, who both condoned the use of violence. Speakers are head of BBC Documentary Features Will Wyatt and Lord Fitt (Gerry Fitt).
- Contributors
- Gerry Fitt; Will Wyatt
- Keywords
- Internal politics; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; Press; UK; Violence; IRA; Censorship; BBC; Broadcasting; Freedom of the press; Sinn Fein; Television documentaries; Martin McGuinness; Gregory Campbell; Real Lives: The Edge Of The Union
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