Scope and Contents

Transcripts of and briefing for interviews on subjects including the miners’ strike, defence, economic policy and the Social Democrat/Liberal Alliance. Also includes correspondence between the BBC and Peter Mandelson, Director of Campaigns and Communications, on coverage of Labour in general.

Scope and Contents Includes: Sixty Minutes, on international relations and the coal industry, May 1984; interview with Peter Jay on the miners’ strike, economic policy, defence and party reform, May 1984; interview on racism and ethnic minority representation in Labour, June 1984; press statement on a meeting between the National Executive Committee and National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on putting the case for coal, Dec 1984; interview on the Today Programme on the economy, Feb 1985; interviews on TV-AM with...

Scope and Contents

Transcripts including: NK’s This Week Next Week interview with David Dimbleby, on subjects including relations with the trade unions, defence and the Social Democrat/Liberal Alliance, Sept 1986; transcript of NK’s This Week interview, "The Next PM?", with Jonathan Dimbleby, on subjects including defence, unemployment and the economy, Oct 1986.