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Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

11/06/2013

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0hr 47min

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Documentary

STORY

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).

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Julie Etchingham
  • Nigel Dacre
  • Martyn Lewis
  • John Suchet
  • Alastair Stewart

    Director

  • Kerry Allison

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Shiver

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Julie Etchingham

Narrator

Nigel Dacre

Self

Martyn Lewis

Self

John Suchet

Self

Alastair Stewart

Self

Jennie Bond

Self

Dan Rather

Self

Sanford Socolow

Self

Michael Jermey

Self

Norman Rees

Self