Memories of 1970-1991

1991 (Season 1, Episode 22)

TV Episode | 52 min | Documentary

Gulf War underway. John McCarthy and Terry Waite released. Yeltsin rescues Gorbachev from a coup. IRA bomb Downing Street. Freddie Mercury dies.

Writers

Dominic Allan (scripts) | Ian Davis (scripts) | Chris Holker (scripts) | Jane Van Knijff (scripts)

Producer

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14 cast members

Name	Known for
Robert Powell Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	The Italian Job (1969)
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Zulu (1964)
Mikhail Gorbachev Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Saddam Hussein Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Long Days (1980)
Jeremy Irons Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Dead Ringers (1988)
Sophia Loren Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Two Women (1960)
Nelson Mandela Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
Robert Maxwell Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Swan Lake (1966)
John McCarthy Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Blind Flight (2003)
Freddie Mercury Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Flash Gordon (1980)
Luciano Pavarotti Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Yes, Giorgio (1982)
Norman Schwarzkopf Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The American President (2000)
Terry Waite Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Songs of Praise (1961)
Boris Yeltsin Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya (2006)