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Tomorrow marks 30 years since the ban on Sinn Féin was lifted.
From 1988 to 1994 , it was illegal for British media to broadcast the voices of anyone speaking on behalf of 10 banned groups in Northern Ireland .
The ban was introduced by home secretary Douglas Hurd , reflecting the Thatcher government’s hardline approach to Irish republicanism.
The BBC banned Sinn Féin representatives from broadcasting for six years in 1988 .
The BBC put out a remit straight away that said there’d be no more of that.
Conor Grimes became one of about eight actors mostly men’ at the vanguard of a new gold rush.
The work was “fleeting but lucrative,” says Grimes .
Chris Morris created the sketch in his late 20s and it still appeals 30 years on.
He maintains it was created based on an instinct [that] this would be funny’ Morris believes the ban was almost perfectly self-defeating.
“To use the voice of an actor just gave a special presence to their statements,” he says.
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