Boy runs away from home to save seals
- Title
- Boy runs away from home to save seals
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Oct 1978
- Year of production
- 1978
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- Duration
- 00:02:33
- Description
- Interview with 13-year-old Matthew Hilton, and his mother, following his return home to Sunderland, after he he ran away in an attempt to halt the planned seal cull in Scotland. He says that he is going to write a letter to the Prime Minister James Callaghan. Male interviewer not identified.
- Further information
- The Guardian (13/10/78), p. 21
- Contributors
- Matthew Hilton; Mrs Hilton
- Keywords
- Truancy; Seals (animals); Children (age group); Children (family); Animal welfare; Missing persons; Animals; Child behaviour; Matthew Hilton
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LBC/IRN, "Boy runs away from home to save seals". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0011500387014 (Accessed 21 Apr 2025)