Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World
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This Shiver (ITV Studios) documentary reveals what happened behind-the-scenes on some of the most momentous breaking news events in our lifetime - as told by those caught up in the real-life drama, those in the newsrooms and those responsible for delivering these newsflashes into millions of people's homes. News stories covered include the death of Diana, Princess of Wales (1997); the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas (1963); the coal-tip landslide in Aberfan (1966); the Lockerbie Air Disaster (1988); the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York (2001); the start of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War (1991); the dramatic end of the Iranian Embassy siege in London (1980); and the announcement of the death of the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (2002).
Cast
![Julie Etchingham](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//gYJweMGnrLvPMMR6wuBBRWdGMLI.jpg)
Julie Etchingham
Narrator
![Nigel Dacre](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Nigel Dacre
Self
![Martyn Lewis](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Martyn Lewis
Self
![John Suchet](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
John Suchet
Self
![Alastair Stewart](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//4Fo8LoJBAtHb0ypz51xF2N4VaHH.jpg)
Alastair Stewart
Self
![Jennie Bond](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Jennie Bond
Self
![Dan Rather](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//rfydcLZmzv6LM5FdaQVaRKlToQA.jpg)
Dan Rather
Self
![Sanford Socolow](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Sanford Socolow
Self
![Michael Jermey](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Michael Jermey
Self
![Norman Rees](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Norman Rees
Self
![Richard Baker](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Richard Baker
Self
![Lis Howell](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Lis Howell
Self
![Ian Fisher](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Ian Fisher
Self
![Stewart Purvis](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//b4yNlIqOPBSFduiU8ctPX7mGQ1A.jpg)
Stewart Purvis
Self
![Nick Owen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//afGymzA5XVdMQVexSyyY21X23VN.jpg)
Nick Owen
Self
![David Goldsmith](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
David Goldsmith
Self
![Lesley Boden](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Lesley Boden
Self
![Sim Harris](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Sim Harris
Self
![Mary Nightingale](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//pIl8sjRfB4uKSKA4yuLtSPajlvt.jpg)
Mary Nightingale
Self
![Nick Rabin](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Nick Rabin
Self
![Tony Blair](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//8d2ImyiI2fNSFW365FHsSmsfDvW.jpg)
Tony Blair
Self
![Kay Burley](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Kay Burley
Self
![Walter Cronkite](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//hCIBybvwP7aMqwJFxcmVEyNrRyB.jpg)
Walter Cronkite
Self
![Sandy Gall](/_next/static/media/notFound.aecd17f8.png)
Sandy Gall
Self
![John F. Kennedy](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//59L7ESQn3PCui8bVluY7H5Qu9Fv.jpg)
John F. Kennedy
Self
![Dermot Murnaghan](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w200//hkuhZpg53fTc4P8tOhY48NJDlcC.jpg)