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).
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
Richard Baker
Self
Lis Howell
Self
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