Fallout of broadcast strike
- Title
- Fallout of broadcast strike
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Jingle
- TX Date
- Jul 1985
- Year of production
- 1985
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- Duration
- 00:02:56
- Description
- Report following the one day strike of broadcast journalists, on the effect on BBC World Service programmes. Follows the BBC Board of Governors bowing to Government calls not to show controversial documentary Real Lives: The Edge Of The Union, about political extremism in Northern Ireland. Some say the film gives terrorism publicity while others say the BBC can no longer be seen as independent. Speakers are BBC World Service journalist leader Vicky Barrett; BBC Turkish journalist. Male reporter not identified. Also includes BBC World Service output.
- Contributors
- BBC World Service; Vicky Barrett
- Keywords
- Politics; Government; Internal politics; Strikes; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; UK; Censorship; BBC; Broadcasting; Freedom of the press; Journalists; Television documentaries; BBC World Service; Martin McGuinness; Real Lives: The Edge Of The Union; Radio news programme
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