No need for panic buying
- Title
- No need for panic buying
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 19 Jan 1979
- Year of production
- 1979
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- Duration
- 00:03:42
- Description
- Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, John Silkin urges calm, and claims there is no need for panic buying in the current (lorry drivers?) strikes. He voices his optimism a national state of emergency will not ensue. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- John Silkin
- Keywords
- Politics; Strikes; Truck drivers; Haulage; Hauliers; Labour disputes; Food supply; Prices; Economics
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LBC/IRN, "No need for panic buying". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0000700479011 (Accessed 20 Dec 2025)