On Radio 4 Now

Saturday Play

14:30 - 15:30

Michael Dobbs' play follows Margaret Thatcher's last traumatic days in power.

  1. BBC Radio 4
  2. Programmes
  3. 1989: Day by Day

1989: Day by Day

Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago

Programmes:
on BBC iPlayer (7)
coming up (15)
Previous programmes:
by year (69)

Available now on BBC iPlayer

  1. Listen to the latest programme

    27th November 1989

    More:
    programme information

    Listen now (4 minutes)

    Available since yesterday with 6 days left.

    Margaret Thatcher defends her record on the BBC's Panorama.

  2. Also available

    1. 26th November 1989

      More:
      programme information

      Listen now (4 minutes)

      Available since Thursday with 5 days left.

      Czechoslovakia's prime minister has his first meeting with leading dissident Vaclav Havel.

    2. 25th November 1989

      More:
      programme information

      Listen now (4 minutes)

      Available since Wednesday with 4 days left.

      In Czechoslovakia, demonstrators keep up the pressure for free elections.

    3. 24th November 1989

      More:
      programme information

      Listen now (4 minutes)

      Available since Tuesday with 3 days left.

      The Czech leadership are forced to resign.

    4. 23rd November 1989

      More:
      programme information

      Listen now (4 minutes)

      Available since Monday with 2 days left.

      The Conservative Party is facing a leadership challenge.

2 more programmes available now.

Featured

Alistair Burnett

Wikipedia

1989 - Europe's Revolution

Twenty years ago communist governments in central and Eastern Europe crumbled. BBC World Service hears from people who lived through those events - and from a generation born in 1989.

Explore 1989 - Europe's Revolution on the World Service

My Story

Have you got a story to tell? Send it to us and enter the BBC My Story competition.

Finalists will get to tell their story in a major BBC One series. And five people will get their stories made into a book.

Send your story

Coming up

Today, 16:56 on Radio 4 FM

Czech PM Ladislav Adamec formally announces the end of the communists' monopoly on power.

14 more programmes coming up in the next 7 days.

More like this

Find related BBC Radio 4 programmes.

Categories

Explore the BBC

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view the content of this page in your current browser, you will not be able to get the full visual experience. Please consider upgrading your browser software or enabling style sheets (CSS) if you are able to do so.