Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

47 mins | Documentary | Nov. 6, 2013

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).

Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

47 mins | Documentary | Nov. 6, 2013

Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
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).
Producers Shiver
Original title Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
Directors Kerry Allison
Writers

Cast

Julie Etchingham

as Narrator

Nigel Dacre

as Self

Martyn Lewis

as Self

John Suchet

as Self

Jennie Bond

as Self

Dan Rather

as Self

Sanford Socolow

as Self

Michael Jermey

as Self

Norman Rees

as Self

Richard Baker

as Self

Lis Howell

as Self

Ian Fisher

as Self

Stewart Purvis

as Self

Nick Owen

as Self

David Goldsmith

as Self

Lesley Boden

as Self

Sim Harris

as Self

Nick Rabin

as Self

Tony Blair

as Self

Kay Burley

as Self

Walter Cronkite

as Self

Sandy Gall

as Self

John F. Kennedy

as Self