Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

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).

Cast

Julie Etchingham

Narrator

N/A

Nigel Dacre

Self

N/A

Martyn Lewis

Self

N/A

John Suchet

Self

Alastair Stewart

Self

Jennie Bond

Self

Dan Rather

Self

N/A

Sanford Socolow

Self

N/A

Michael Jermey

Self

N/A

Norman Rees

Self

N/A

Richard Baker

Self

N/A

Lis Howell

Self