LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

City week

Genre

Interview; Discussion; Special

TX Date

Feb 1979

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:20:44

Description

City Week. A review of the week’s news as seen by IRN’s Financial Unit, hosted by Douglas Moffitt and Tom Maddocks. Topics covered include: possible measures in the Government’s upcoming Spring Budget; share dealing; UK trading with the Republic of Ireland. Speakers include: Leslie Tolley, Institute of Management; Bill Foy, Buckmaster and Moore; Malcolm Craig, author of Successful Investment; Peter Potts, Chieftain Unit Trust Group; Dick Grace, Conti Commodities; Jim Lowe(?), Macro; Hugh Alston, Irish Industrial Development Authority (IDA). Studio direction by Ray Gannon(?).

Contributors

Tom Maddocks; Douglas Moffitt; Ray Gannon(?); Dick Grace; Malcolm Craig; Bill Foy; Leslie Tolley; Peter Potts; Jim Lowe(?); Hugh Alston

Keywords

Budgets; Government; Labour Party; Exports; Prices; Inflation; Taxation; Economics; Ireland; Conservative Party; Monetary policy; Business; Exchange rates; Surveys; Economic policy; Finance; International trade; Foreign exchange; Foreign aid; Economic forecasting; Share dealing; Currencies; Costs; Burma; Economic statistics; Financial markets; Commodities; Bolivia

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