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To the Castle
Series title:[Sunday Morning : excerpt]Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):422599Type of material:Sound recordingsFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:GRAY, ElizabethAccession:2010-0012Media:SoundPart:1 of 1Release date:1989-12-03Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:interviewer/reporter, Elizabeth GrayDescription:Documentary by Elizabeth Gray on the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, beginning with actuality of a news conference by the Civic Forum. Subjects include: the role of Vaclav Havel; plans for a national strike on November 27; the role of students in the fight for reform; anger over police beating up students; support by workers for the strike; and Czech radio and television coverage of the strike and the revival of the Catholic church, long repressed by the Communists. Interviewees include: students; physicist and boiler stoker Pavil Bratinka; Czech TV and radio executive Karil Kvapil, who was pressured to resign by his staff for his role in limiting coverage of the unrest; and former Communist Vladimir Dloughy. Other actuality includes: chanting crowds; folk songs; ceremony at St. Vitus Cathedral for the canonization of St. Agnes and a ride on a horse-drawn wagon in Prague during the strike by the students. <27mn>Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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