Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World

The 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

J Julie EtchinghamNarrator N Nigel DacreSelf M Martyn LewisSelf J John SuchetSelf A Alastair StewartSelf J Jennie BondSelf D Dan RatherSelf S Sanford SocolowSelf M Michael JermeySelf N Norman ReesSelf R Richard BakerSelf L Lis HowellSelf

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I Ian FisherSelf S Stewart PurvisSelf N Nick OwenSelf D David GoldsmithSelf L Lesley BodenSelf S Sim HarrisSelf M Mary NightingaleSelf N Nick RabinSelf T Tony BlairSelf K Kay BurleySelf W Walter CronkiteSelf S Sandy GallSelf J John F. KennedySelf (archive footage) D Dermot MurnaghanSelf