Customer describes contaminated oranges
- Title
- Customer describes contaminated oranges
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Feb 1978
- Year of production
- 1978
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- Duration
- 00:01:20
- Description
- Interview with Christine Chapman, a customer at a branch of Marks and Spencer in London, on buying a net of oranges which contained mercury; the poison had been deliberately placed there by a terrorist group. The woman says she called the authorities on finding the metallic substance in the fruit. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Christine Chapman
- Keywords
- Terrorism; Press; UK; Poisoning; Marks & Spencer; Food industry; Metals; Mercury (element); Fruit; Christine Chapman
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LBC/IRN, "Customer describes contaminated oranges". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0001500449020 (Accessed 06 May 2025)