Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
Kerry Allison2013-11-06
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47 min
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
| Name | Character | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Julie Etchingham | Narrator | Unowned |
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Nigel Dacre | Self | Unowned |
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Martyn Lewis | Self | Unowned |
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John Suchet | Self | Unowned |
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Alastair Stewart | Self | Unowned |
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Jennie Bond | Self | Unowned |
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Dan Rather | Self | Unowned |
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Sanford Socolow | Self | Unowned |
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Michael Jermey | Self | Unowned |
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Norman Rees | Self | Unowned |
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Richard Baker | Self | Unowned |
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Lis Howell | Self | Unowned |
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Ian Fisher | Self | Unowned |
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Stewart Purvis | Self | Unowned |
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Nick Owen | Self | Unowned |
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David Goldsmith | Self | Unowned |
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Lesley Boden | Self | Unowned |
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Sim Harris | Self | Unowned |
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Mary Nightingale | Self | Unowned |
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Nick Rabin | Self | Unowned |
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Tony Blair | Self | Unowned |
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Kay Burley | Self | Unowned |
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Walter Cronkite | Self | Unowned |
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Sandy Gall | Self | Unowned |
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John F. Kennedy | Self | Unowned |
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Dermot Murnaghan | Unowned |