Raisa Gorbachev visits UK school
- Title
- Raisa Gorbachev visits UK school
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Vox pop; Special
- TX Date
- 7 Dec 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:03:59
- Description
- Report on a visit by Raisa Gorbachev, the wife of the Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to a school in Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, while visiting the UK en route to the INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) US-USSR summit in Washington DC. Includes interviews with children and headmaster Brian McCutcheon and actuality of nativity play. Reporter not identified.
- Contributors
- Raisa Gorbachev; Craig Harkness; Charlotte Bryant; Brian McCutcheon; Simon Hathaway; Derek Whitelaw
- Keywords
- Treaties; School; UK; USSR; Children (age group); Nuclear weapons; Arms control; State visits; Nuclear disarmament; Summits (meetings); INF; Raisa Gorbachev
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