Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

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Documentary
Runtime
47 mins
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This Shiver (ITV Studios) documentary reveals what happened behind-the-scenes on some of the most momentous breaking news events in our lifetime - as told by those caught up in the real-life drama, those in the newsrooms and those responsible for delivering these newsflashes into millions of people's homes. News stories covered include the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas (1963); the coal-tip landslide in Aberfan (1966); the Lockerbie Air Disaster (1988); the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York (2001); the start of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War (1991); the dramatic end of the Iranian Embassy siege in London (1980); and the announcement of the death of the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (2002).

Cast

  • Julie Etchingham
  • Nigel Dacre
  • Martyn Lewis
  • John Suchet
  • Alastair Stewart
  • Jennie Bond
  • Dan Rather
  • Sanford Socolow
  • Michael Jermey
  • Norman Rees
  • Richard Baker
  • Lis Howell
  • Ian Fisher
  • Stewart Purvis
  • Nick Owen
  • David Goldsmith
  • Lesley Boden
  • Sim Harris
  • Mary Nightingale
  • Nick Rabin
  • Tony Blair
  • Kay Burley
  • Walter Cronkite
  • Sandy Gall
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Dermot Murnaghan

Director

  • Kerry Allison

Producers

  • Adam Levy
  • Kerry Allison

Screenwriter

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