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Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

Nov 6, 2013

0h 47m

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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).

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Shiver

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Cast

Narrator

Julie Etchingham

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Nigel Dacre

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Martyn Lewis

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John Suchet

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Alastair Stewart

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Jennie Bond

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Dan Rather

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Sanford Socolow

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Michael Jermey

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Norman Rees

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Richard Baker

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Lis Howell

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