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A BBC TV channel for Scotland which will broadcast every evening and will show drama, factual, comedy and news programmes made in Scotland

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Journey through the news, music and TV through the decades.

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Rewind: 1980s: 1989

1989

1980s

BBC Scotland - Rewind, 1980s, 1989

A look back at the music, news and TV of 1989.

Rewind back to 1989 and relive the music, news and events hitting the headlines of this memorable year.

A look back at the music and news stories making the headlines in 1989, the year that saw Scottish bands Texas and Deacon Blue dominate the music charts and Batman become the highest-grossing movie of the year.

In sport, Scotsman Jocky Wilson won the World Darts Championship for the second time. Across the UK, unemployment was on the decline, but in Scotland there was widespread opposition to the introduction of a new community charge known as poll tax.

George HW Bush became the 41st president of the United States, while across Eastern Europe the Iron Curtain started to fall amid the break up of several communist regimes, and the Berlin Wall finally crumbled.

Rewind: 1980s

A BBC TV channel for Scotland which will broadcast every evening and will show drama, factual, comedy and news programmes made in Scotland


Series revisiting all the great moments from the 80s.

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