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Death on the Rock

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"Death on the Rock" is a controversial television documentary, an episode of Thames Television's current affairs series This Week, broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV on 28 April 1988. [1]

25 relations: Andrew Neil, BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, BFI TV 100, Broadcasting Act 1990, Carmen Proetta, Cedric Delves, Channel 4 Banned season, Daniel McCann, David Elstein, Edge of Darkness, George Styles, John Whitney (broadcaster), List of documentary films, List of years in British television, Mairéad Farrell, Operation Flavius, Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series), Robin Morgan (journalist), Seán Savage, Shoot to Kill (1990 film), Shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland, Thames Television, This Week (ITV TV series), 1988 in British television, 1991 in British television.

Andrew Neil

Andrew Ferguson Neil (born 21 May 1949) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

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BAFTA Award for Best Documentary

This page lists the winners for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, formerly known as the Robert Flaherty Award, for each year.

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BFI TV 100

The BFI TV 100 is a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI), chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre to have been screened.

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Broadcasting Act 1990

The Broadcasting Act 1990 is a law of the British parliament, often regarded by both its supporters and its critics as a quintessential example of Thatcherism.

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Carmen Proetta

Carmen Proetta is a Gibraltarian who was an independent witness to Operation Flavius, a controversial British Army operation in which the Special Air Service shot dead three unarmed Provisional IRA members in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988.

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Cedric Delves

Lieutenant General Sir Cedric Norman George Delves KBE DSO (born 1 March 1947) is a former commander of the 22 SAS Regiment and later a British Army general.

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Channel 4 Banned season

There have been two Channel 4 Banned seasons.

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Daniel McCann

Daniel "Danny" McCann (30 November 1957 – 6 March 1988) was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who was killed by British Army Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers in Operation Flavius.

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David Elstein

David Keith Elstein (born 14 November 1944), is Chairman of openDemocracy.net and an executive producer at Portobello Films.

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Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness is a British television drama serial produced by BBC Television in association with Lionheart Television International and originally broadcast in six fifty-five-minute episodes in late 1985.

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George Styles

Lieutenant Colonel Stephen George Styles, GC (16 March 1928 – 1 August 2006), usually known as George Styles, was a British Army officer and a bomb disposal expert in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC).

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John Whitney (broadcaster)

John Norton Braithwaite Whitney CBE is a writer and producer who has been involved in the introduction and development of commercial radio and television in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s.

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List of documentary films

This is an alphabetical list of documentary films with Wikipedia articles.

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List of years in British television

This page indexes the individual year in British television pages.

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Mairéad Farrell

Mairéad Farrell (Máiréad Ní Fhearghail or Mairéad Ní Fhearail;3 March 1957 – 6 March 1988) was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA).

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Operation Flavius

Operation Flavius (also referred to as the "Gibraltar killings") was a controversial military operation in which three members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988.

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Pride and Prejudice (1995 TV series)

Pride and Prejudice is a six-episode 1995 British television drama, adapted by Andrew Davies from Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name.

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Robin Morgan (journalist)

Robin Morgan is a British newspaper editor and journalist.

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Seán Savage

Seán Savage (Seán Sabhaois) (26 January 1965 – 6 March 1988) was an Irish volunteer of the Provisional IRA who was shot and killed by British Army Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers in Operation Flavius.

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Shoot to Kill (1990 film)

Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.

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Shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland

During the period known as "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland (the second half of the 20th century), the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) were accused by Republicans of operating a "shoot-to-kill" policy, under which suspected terrorists were alleged to have been deliberately killed without any attempt to arrest them.

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Thames Television

Thames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding area on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.

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This Week (ITV TV series)

This Week is a weekly current affairs series that was first produced for ITV in January 1956 by Associated-Rediffusion (later Thames Television), running until 1979, when it was replaced by TV Eye.

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1988 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1988.

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1991 in British television

This is a list of British television related events from 1991.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Rock

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