Hayes on Sunday

Title

Hayes on Sunday

Genre

Interview; Music

TX Date

17 Aug 1980

Year of production

1980

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Duration

00:22:38

Description

Vivian White sits in to present Hayes on Sunday, revisiting the week’s topical shows and interviews with: London bureaux chief at the Washington Post, Leonard Downie, about the candidates for the US Presidential elections. Air Vice-Marshall Stewart Menaul on the proposal by Swedish scientist Dr Sigvard Ekland that a nuclear bomb should be exploded and witnessed by representatives of the media. BBC foreign correspondent, Alex Brodie, on the Iranian revolution. Science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury, talks about his work as he visits London. Starts and ends with the American national anthem.

Contributors

Vivian White; Stewart Menaul; Ray Bradbury; Leonard Downie; Alex Brodie

Keywords

Authors; USA; Iran; Elections; Revolutions; Politics; Technology; Pollution; Government; Death penalty; Television; Cars; Political systems; Jimmy Carter; Mass media; Nuclear weapons; Novels; Foreign policy; Presidents; Presidential candidates; Ronald Reagan; Nuclear bomb; Executions; Science fiction; Election campaigns; Civil war (concept); National anthems; Iranian revolution (1979); Popular literature; Sigvard Ekland

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