LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

New Cunard ship

Genre

Interview; Press conference

TX Date

3 Aug 1982

Year of production

1982

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Duration

00:02:08

Description

Press interview with Lord Matthews (Victor Matthews), Chairman of Cunard, on the building of a new ship for the company to replace the Atlantic Conveyor (lost in the Falklands War). Also various unidentified speakers who claim the ship should be built at Swan Hunter shipyard on Tyneside.

Contributors

Victor Matthews

Keywords

Government; Economics; Employment; Falklands War (1982); Tyneside; Ships; Shipbuilding; Cunard; Shipyards; Atlantic Conveyor

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