Decade. Pt 7

Title

Decade. Pt 7

Genre

News report; Interview; Vox pop; Speech; Music; Special

TX Date

31 Dec 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:05:01

Description

Simon Bowden presents a special series looking back at the main news stories of the 1980s. This part looks at international political reform and the future of the environment: nuclear threat and cold war; threat of AIDS; Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986; space shuttles and Challenger disaster; INF treaty (1987); problems in the Middle East; terrorism; Salman Rushdie fatwa; fall of the Berlin Wall. Includes speeches by Ronald Reagan; Margaret Thatcher; Mikhail Gorbachev. Ends with song Give Peace a Chance.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher; Ronald Reagan; Mikhail Gorbachev; Simon Bowden

Keywords

Air accidents; Middle East; Treaties; Pollution; International relations; Demonstrations; Nuclear weapons; Climate change; Cold War; Nuclear disarmament; Peacebuilding; Global warming; Environment; AIDS; Space shuttles; Salman Rushdie; Radioactive pollution; Chernobyl Nuclear Accident (1986); Challenger; Berlin; Berlin Wall

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