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| 1989 - Day By Day | ...Chancellor JOHN MAJOR gives his first Autumn Statement - City analysts predict gloom for the 90s; Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's reformist Solidarity party, lobbies the US Senate for financial aid; Mikhail Gorbachev warns the West not to try exporting capitalism to the East.... |
| Alter Egos | ...Next in series: JOHN MAJOR... |
| Between Ourselves | ...Former Prime Ministers JOHN MAJOR and Garret FitzGerald discuss life after power.... |
| Conference Special | ...SBH:Peter Jenkins offers a personal view of the week. With acts. & ints. incl. Chancellor JOHN MAJOR on opportunities within the Conservative party & unacceptability of the Delors plan for European single currency; Cecil Parkinson on transport plans; Kenneth Clarke on the NHS; John MacGregor on education. Rec. Bournemouth.... |
| Conflict Is Over, The | ...Dramatisation by Michael Eaton of the events that led to the signing of the Downing Street Declaration in December 1993 and the subsequent IRA ceasefire in August 1994, told through the relationship between JOHN MAJOR and Albert Reynolds.... |
| Desert Island Discs | ...He was raised in an orthodox Jewish family in Llanelli, South Wales, where his parents ran ladies’ fashion shops. In the Labour supporting, rugby playing valleys, the teenage Michael preferred football and his leanings were towards the Conservatives. He propelled himself to Peterhouse College, Cambridge – and was part of the Cambridge MAFIA that included Kenneth Clarke, Leon Brittan, Norman Lamont and Norman Fowler. But while his contemporaries all entered parliament within a few years of graduating, Michael Howard’s journey to Westminster took considerably longer. He first stood as a Conservative candidate in 1966 when he was just 24 years old. He tried again, unsuccessfully, in 1970, but it was not until 1983 – after putting his name forward for dozens of safe seats – that he was chosen as the party’s candidate for Folkestone and Hythe and secured a seat in the House of Commons. He says that by the time he was successful, he wondered whether he was too old to make his mark there. But he rose quickly through the ministerial ranks and had secured a place in cabinet before he was 50. He was JOHN MAJOR’s Home Secretary for four years – a controversial period that culminated in his former deputy, Ann Widdecombe, saying there was ‘something of the night’ in his personality. When he stood to be leader of the party in 1997 he came fifth out of five candidates. But eight months ago he was elected, unopposed, the new leader of the party. He told Sue Lawley: 'I was astonished. It was not something I ever thought would happen and if we'd been sitting here a year ago and you'd told me that I'd be sitting here today as leader of the Conservative Party, I have said that you were prone to fantasies'... |
| File On 4 | ...JOHN MAJOR (Speaker)... |
| Financial World Tonight, The | ...JOHN MAJOR (Speaker)... |
| Look Back At The Nineties, A | ...voice of Gerry Adams; Princess Diana on 'Blind Date'; the World Cup in America; fishing hooliganism; low government majority; mortgages; new Christmas record 'Happy Cliffmas'; kidnapping of JOHN MAJOR ... |
| Mary Whitehouse Experience, The | ...The Family Experience : Tory Leaders: Who is the hardest? : Mark Hurst - Hostages/Musicals/JOHN MAJOR/Kane toads/Old clothes/Recorder/Seeing bands : The Correspondence Experience - Letter about nothing/Request for Christmas gift ideas : The Work Experience : Prudential ad parody ('I want to be...') : Punchline Competition: Mohammed Ali and Saddam Hussein : Christmas Pantomime (1). Additional cast: Mark Hurst (Final appearance).... |
| Million Pound Radio Show, The | ...The comedy sketch show. This edition includes "the pirate sketch" & refs. to JOHN MAJOR & the fall of Margaret Thatcher. Written & presented by Andy Hamilton & Nick Revell. With Felicity Montagu & Jasper Jacob. Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer.... |
| More Than A Game | ...JOHN MAJOR reads from his history of cricket, exploring the game's rich past, its characters and its moments of beauty and madness.... |
| News Stand | ...SBH:An example of the series examining magazines and periodicals. Presented by Robin Lustig. Royals and celebs in the glossies. Incl. endless Royal stories speculating about why Prince Charles looks so glum and what Prince William likes on his sandwiches; how Mrs Thatcher should cope with redundancy; JOHN MAJOR's holiday habits; Q magazine's difficult interview with Bill Wyman. Interview with Maggie Goodman (Editor, Hello). Produced by Dinah Lammiman.... |
| On The Hour | ...The M25 is missing, last seen being scraped away by a man with a spoon. “On The Hour” is in the thick of the roadtheft news, zooming up the fast lane of the current affairs motorway to bring us Alan Partridge reporting on Arsenal’s transfer news, The Queen Mother speaking for the first time of her relationship with JOHN MAJOR, and a special report on the unusual business practices at Barton’s Matches. This Week’s Audio Pullout: The Seventh Tabernacle Adventist Church Presents “The Tab” - talking ‘bout religion for folks who don’t do sin. Liberals and homosexuals, GO AWAY!.... |
| Patricia's Policy | ...The first of a new four-part drama by Tony Mulholland. `Poison Pens'. Patricia Brown has been selected as the Tory candidate for King's Meadow, a marginal seat. JOHN MAJOR has not yet named the date of the general election, but the party machine has already started to swing into action. There is a tough fight ahead. With Lucy Treager, Kim Wall and Hilary MacLean. Director Brian Lighthill.... |
| Perhaps, Prime Minister | ...Three programmes in which Howell James and George Bridges, the men who ran JOHN MAJOR's political office, look back at what really happened in the last three years of Conservative government.... |
| Politicians Fear Of The Gaffe | ...Michael White of the Guardian presents an entertaining examination of the political gaffe. Ranging from Margaret Thatcher's `we have become a grandmother' to JOHN MAJOR's attack on some cabinet colleagues as `bastards', the programme features many amusing and embarrassing moments from British politics.... |
| Power And The Press | ...JOHN MAJOR's failure to win the support of Rupert Murdoch almost certainly contributed to his fall, while Tony Blair's courting of the press was unprecedented in the case of a Labour leader. He may have learnt from Neil Kinnock, who blamed the press for his defeat.... |
| Rail Privatisation | ...SBH:Prime Minister JOHN MAJOR coments on the withdrawal of the London, Tilbury, Southend line from the rail privatisation programme following the discovery of ticket sales irregularities. From R4 1800 Hrs News.... |
| Reunion, The | ...Contributors include Chief Executive and Chairman of British Rail, John Welsby; JOHN MAJOR's Transport Secretary John (now Lord) MacGregor; Sir Patrick Brown, former Permanent Secretary at the Department of Transport, the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising Roger Salmon and Rail Expert and journalist Roger Ford.... |
| Rock And Poll Years, The | ...The last of five programmes mixing pop and politics to capture the atmosphere and chart the course of general election campaigns. Carol Thatcher recalls the election of 1992, which JOHN MAJOR called 15 months after Margaret Thatcher's fall. Neil Kinnock had transformed himself and the Labour Party, which was ahead in the polls, but then it went horribly wrong.... |
| That Mocking Bird | ...In the third programme, he converses with impressionist Rory Bremner, with contributions from JOHN MAJOR, Billy Connolly, Woody Allen, Eddie Izzard, Stanley Baxter and Arthur Lowe...?... |
| Things Can Only Get Better | ...Featuring the fall of the Berlin wall, Howe's resignation speech, JOHN MAJOR and country dancing.... |
| This Sceptred Isle - The 20th Century | ...After a leadership contest, Thatcher finally leaves Downing Street to be replaced by JOHN MAJOR. Narrated by Anna Massey.... |
| Triumphs And Disasters | ...1991's Ribble Valley by-election was JOHN MAJOR's first electoral test as PM.... |
| View From The Boundary, A~test Match Special | ...SBH:JOHN MAJOR, Chancellor of the Exchequer, talks about his interest in cricket. Refs. to the great Surrey side of the 1950s & to interest in cricket in government circles. Interviewer: Brian Johnston. From A View From the Boundary... |
| Walden - Reminisces | ...A look at the 1980's: Brian's uneasy admiration for Mrs Thatcher, and anger at the Labour movement. He'll tell the story of Mrs Thatcher swearing Brian to secrecy about her choice of successor in 1987. His amazement at discovering it was JOHN MAJOR (then hardly in the frame) and growing realisation that he was quite different from what she supposed.... |
| Way We Live Now, The | ...Douglas Hurd focuses on the relationship between politics and the press - with the help of Sir JOHN MAJOR and others.... |
| Week Ending | ...1. Pre-Sig 2. The Libereal Democrat's Conference 3. The Man From Atlanta 4. Crude Racket 5. JOHN MAJOR's Overdraft 6. Corn Circles 7. Bird of a Feather 8. Gazza 9. Top Secret 10. Poll Tax 11. UN-Attaches 12. Saddam Hussein 13. Bush on Iraqi TV 14. Postman Saddam 15. These You Have Loved 16. Soft Targets 17. These You Have Loved 18. Big Issues 19. The Final Curtain 20. I'm Oleh - Fly Me 21. Steve Cram Speeding 22. The Final Curtain 23. Mission Quite Tricky 24. One Hundred Great Paintings 25. PM Retirement Bids 26. Clause Back 27. Chanel Sketch... |
| Westminster Hour , The | ...Douglas Hurd focuses on the relationship between politics and the press - with the help of Sir JOHN MAJOR and others.... |
| Westminster Hour, The | ...Simon Hoggart speaks to the victims and their assailants. And he investigates one of the biggest unresolved mysteries of our time - did JOHN MAJOR really did tuck his shirt into his underpants?... |
| Who Goes Home | ...The final part of Roy Hattersley's political autobiography explains why he retired from being an MP and what inspired JOHN MAJOR to hiss `You think you're funny, I think you're pathetic' - long before he offered Mr Hattersley a peerage.... |
| With Great Pleasure | ...JOHN MAJOR... |
| Woman's Hour | ...JOHN MAJOR (Speaker)... |