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  1. Secrets reform bill narrowly defeated (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Speech; Parliamentary debate

    Des Fahy reports on an attempt by Conservative MP Richard Shepherd to bring forward a private member’s bill to reform the Official Secrets Act to allow access to more information, despite Prime Minister...

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  2. Nazi war criminals escaped prosecution (1988)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Leading post-war politicians and civil servants are being accused of a massive cover up which allowed some of the most vicious members of Hitler’s SS to escape prosecution in Britain. The war criminals...

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  3. Ulster Loyalists and South African arms trade (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate

    Elena Curti reports on a possible arms trade between South Africa and Ulster loyalists. Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe addresses the House of Commons on the subject. Labour’s foreign affairs...

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  4. Merlyn Rees on MI5 dirty tricks campaign (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Former Home Secretary, Merlyn Rees admits MI5 did wage a dirty tricks campaign against the last Labour government. New allegations of security service involvement in a plan to undermine the Wilson...

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  5. British-Soviet relations deteriorating (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    The Soviet Union is warning that a further 170 British nationals could be forced to leave. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov said in Moscow that a decision had been taken to set a quota for...

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  6. Parliamentary debate on energy bill, Nazi prosecution and Westland scandal (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Peter Spencer reports from Westminster, prior to a Cabinet reshuffle, on a debate on the privatisation of the electricity industry amid revelations ageing Magnox nuclear power stations are to remain under...

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  7. Guildford Four release (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Ex-Home Secretary Merlyn Rees talking to Paul Rowley about the surprise decision the Guildford Four convicted of the IRA Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings 15 years ago were wrongfully convicted and the...

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  8. Guildford Four release (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; News report; Special

    Reporter Sally Eden looks back on the campaign for freedom for the Guildford Four whose convictions for IRA pub bombings 15 years ago on basis of false confessions have now been considered wrongful. After 2...

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  9. Thatcher’s ratings slump (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Kevin Murphy reports on the results of a NOP telephone survey in The Independent newspaper. The opinion poll shows Prime Mininster Margaret Thatcher’s popularity plunging to the lowest of any UK Prime...

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  10. Clockwork orange inquiry (1990)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Paul Rowley reports on calls for the Government to launch a fresh inquiry into an alleged covert British security services operation, codenamed Clockwork Orange, in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. The events...

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