Video interview with Gerry Adams, vice president of Sinn Féin, by Fred Emery for BBC Panorama in 1982. In April of that year the Provisional IRA detonated bombs in Belfast, Derry/Londonderry, Armagh, Ballymena, Bessbrook and Magherafelt killing two and injuring 12 while further bombs at Hyde Park and Regent’s Park in London in July killed 11 British soldiers and injured many civilians. In this interview Adams discusses the attitude of the republican movement to violence and the future development of Sinn Féin. Panorama is a BBC current affairs programme and the world’s longest running public affairs programme on television.
Date of Release/Broadcast: 22 November 1982
Name of First Interviewee: Gerry Adams
Role at time of Interview: Vice president of Sinn Féin
Interviewer: Fred Emery
Purpose: News
Media: Audiovisual
Copyright: BBC © 2013
Link: Watch the video
Programme/Book/Article: BBC Panorama
Time Period covered: 1982
Key Individuals: Gerry Adams, William Whitelaw, Dáithí Ó Conaill, Tim Pat Coogan, Ian Paisley, Harold McCusker, James Prior
Key Words: Sinn Féin, IRA, unemployment, internment, British army, British government, UDR, RUC