Insight 1988. 1968 Special

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Year
1988
Reference
204321
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1988
Reference
204321
Media type
Audio
Series
Insight, 1975-1992
Categories
Documentary radio programs
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:26:23
Credits
RNZ Collection
Walker, Jeanne, Producer
National Radio (N.Z.) (estab. 1986, closed 2007), Broadcaster
Lange, David, 1942-2005, Speaker/Kaikōrero
Jones, Bob, 1939- (b.1939), Speaker/Kaikōrero
Kedgley, Susan Jane, Speaker/Kaikōrero
Roberts, John, Speaker/Kaikōrero
Taylor Alister, Speaker/Kaikōrero
Scott, Graham C. (Graham Cecil), 1942-, Speaker/Kaikōrero
Muldoon, R. D. (Robert David), 1921-1992, Speaker/Kaikōrero
Shadbolt, Tim, 1947-, Speaker/Kaikōrero

Insight '88 steps back 20 years to look at the explosive and revolutionary events of 1968. Produced by Jeanne Walker.

David Lange recalls being a young man in London in 1968
A montage of audio of Prime Minister Keith Holyoke, Martin Luther King, and news audio about the Vietnam War, over a music bed [ "The Eve of Destruction"]
Actuality of student protests in Paris on 06 May with a reporter describing students being shot and teargassed.
Alan Clark, senior lecturer in French at the University of Canterbury describes the progress of the unrest in France in May 1968.
Bob Jones describes being in Moscow and seeing Czech leader Alexander Dubcek who had been arrested and brought back to Moscow by the KGB.
David Lange describes being a 25 year old in London and being advised not to go to Paris and repugnance at events in Prague.
Graham Scott, the head of Treasury, was a student in the United States in 1968 and recalls witnessing civil rights protests
Sue Kedgley recalls her developing political awareness
Tim Shadbolt remembers leading a student occupation of the U.S. consul's office
Alister Taylor recalls being sacked by the Broadcasting Corporation because of his protests against the Vietnam War
Robert Muldoon remembers being the object of protests as Minister of Finance
John Roberts of Victoria University talks about the student-organised "Peace, Power and Politics" conference which upstaged the SEATO conference held at the same time.
Ken Douglas, talks about industrial unrest and the nil-wage order protests
Actuality and voice report of massed protests outside Parliament buildings on 26 June at the opening of Parliament (which was postponed as a result)
Sue Kedgley recalls the growing feminist movement.
John Roberts believes it was the beginning of the new wave of future Labour Party leaders and the environmental and anti-nuclear movements
David Lange comments on the influence of 1968 on his beliefs and policies.