Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World(2013)

🎬47 min
📅2013-11-06
🎭Documentary

Overview

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).

Production

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Cast

Julie Etchingham
as Narrator
Nigel Dacre
as Self
Martyn Lewis
as Self
John Suchet
as Self
Alastair Stewart
as Self
Jennie Bond
as Self
Dan Rather
as Self
Sanford Socolow
as Self
Michael Jermey
as Self
Norman Rees
as Self