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76 Oct 1 Fr	Declassified documents	Key	Archive (Hailsham MSS)	Labour: Hailsham diary (Brian Walden offers support to bring down government) [coded entry with translation]
79 May 4 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Michael Cole letter to MT (hopes to conduct first interview with her as PM) [released 2010]
79 May 9 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Transition to power: Gordon Reece minute for Caroline Stephens (MT’s first major tv interview as PM) [suggests should be after Queen’s Speech] [released 2010]
79 Jun 20 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute to Richard Ryder (MT at Tokyo G7) [MT’s first interview since General Election] [declassified 2009]
79 Jul 12 Th	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	House of Commons PQs
79 Aug 3 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: McQuillan minute to FCO Departments (BBC External Service cuts) [ministers want to protect World Service and broadcasts to Communist countries] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 8 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Bullard minute on BBC External Services (FCO proposals for cuts) [“Experience has made me suspicious of the BBC’s own figures”] [declassified 2009]
79 Aug 16 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Richard Ryder to David Boddy (complaining against BBC) [predicts an avalanche] [released 2010]
79 Aug 22 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: David Boddy letter to Richard Ryder (complaining against BBC) [procedure] [released 2010]
79 Aug 31 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (MT’s first major tv interview as PM) [now is the time] [released 2010]
79 Sep 19 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Ian Gow minute to MT (encloses transcript of Monday’s Panorama ) [MT: “I really think we should protest officially”] [released 2010]
79 Oct 1 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to No.10 Press Secretary (Henry James) (ITV strike) [no chance of LWT being on air for interview this Sunday] [released 2010]
79 Oct 10 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Carter Library)	US: NSC minute (cuts to BBC External Services) [BBC approach to US Government for help resisting] [declassified 1999]
79 Oct 25 Th	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Bulletin (chairmanship of BBC Governors) [Swann resigning] [released 2010]
79 Oct 27 Sa	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Sir Ian Gilmour letter to MT (BBC External Service cuts) [cuts reduced by one third] [declassified 2009]
79 Oct 31 We	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: FCO letter to No.10 (BBC External Service cuts) [FCO cuts yet to come] [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (BBC External Services, immigration, Northern Ireland, gas prices) [no retreat on BBC cuts - “the disposition of the Government was not to revise its decisions”] [released 2010]
79 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Rhodesia - enabling legislation, Polaris, BBC cuts, mortgage rates) [Rhodesia legislation to be passed “abnormally quickly”] [released 2010]
79 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute for Richard Ryder (recommends PM go on tv) [“Nothing happened”] [released 2010]
79 Nov 8 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Cabinet: Minutes of Full Cabinet - CC (79) 20th (Rhodesia, EC, Public Spending, News Presentation, etc) [declassified 2009]
79 Nov 8 Th	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Major	Margaret Thatcher	House of Commons PQs
79 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (BBC, Rhodesia, Rolls-Royce, etc) [Carrickmore filming - BBC ‘blunderama’] [released 2010]
79 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Ian Gow minute for MT (BBC External Services - Commons debate 13 Nov) [“receiving exceptionally favourable treatment”] [released 2010]
79 Nov 9 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Lobby Briefing (Rhodesia, Rolls-Royce, Immigration, BBC) [BBC Panorama & IRA] [released 2010]
79 Nov 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (10-12 Nov) (economy, Rhodesia, Iran, etc) [possible MLR increase to record level] [released 2010]
79 Nov 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: David Boddy minute to Thorneycroft and others (October radio & tv) [calculation of political balance] [released 2010]
79 Nov 15 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece minute to MT (PPB slot available 21 Nov) [“If you considered this an appropriate moment to talk to the electorate”] [released 2010]
79 Nov 19 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Press Office: Press Summary for the PM (17-19 Nov) (Blunt, Iran, Rhodesia, etc) [repercussions of Blunt dominated weekend press] [released 2010]
79 Nov 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (Thatcher MSS)	Broadcasting: Gordon Reece letter to Richard Ryder (audience figures for British tv & radio news) [“since the strike ... ITV have shown a considerable down turn”] [released 2010]
79 Dec 21 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Broadcasting: Gladstone minute on BBC External Services (lunch at Bush House) [vital FCO/BBC be on same side next time; BBC to lay on “suitable claret”] [declassified 2009]
79 Dec 21 Fr	Declassified documents	Trivial	Archive (Ingham MSS)	Press Office: Bulletin (Thatcher family Chequers Christmas details) [from “Rudolph the red-nosed press officer”] [released 2010]
80 Jan 6 Su	Speeches, interviews, etc.	Key	Margaret Thatcher	TV Interview for London Weekend Television Weekend World

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