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32 results found for '"Battersea"' in Keywords.
Thatcher’s walkabout at Battersea market (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher on a walkabout shopping tour of Battersea market. In an area of high immigrant population, one female stallholder is heard expressing concerns about Conservative...
Controversial nightclub opens in Battersea (1978)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Report on the opening of Bennetts, a nightclub in Battersea Square opposed by the local community. Local wine bar owner David Rattle(?) talks about how his business came to be accepted by locals. The...
Bennets nightclub protest in Battersea (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interviews with Brian Barnes a protester against Bennetts, the new nightclub opening in Battersea Square, on why the local community don’t want the nightclub to open. Liz Brewer from the nightclub then...
Battersea Arts Centre closure (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on a protest against the proposed closure of Battersea Arts Centre by Conservative-controlled Wandsworth Council. Includes interview with Mike Carter, Battersea Arts Centre; Francis Stuff(?),...
Our kind of town (1979)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview; Special
Our Kind of Town. In the first part of the programme, presenter Keith Howell visits Battersea Dogs Home in south London and examines the history and work of the institution via an interview with...
Battersea tower block fire (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Jim Dallmeyer reports from the Castlemaine Tower block of flats in Culvert Street, Battersea after the building was gutted by fire. Female studio reporter not identified. (75-year-old Florence Fyfe died in...
Sale of pre-war council estate in London (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. council leader Paul Beresford) on the sale and modernisation of the pre-war St John’s council estate in Wandsworth and Battersea. Female interviewer not identified.
Our kind of town (1980)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview
Our Kind of Town, presented by Keith Howell. This episode takes a look back at people featured on the show during 1979. Howell speaks to sausage shop owner John Kennedy; sociologist Phyllis Willmott;...
Missing baby Louise Brown (1984)
- Genre
- News report
Peter Kimber reports on the police investigation into the disappearance of Down syndrome baby Louise Brown along the Sussex coast, after her parents’ car was allegedly stolen in Battersea, London. (Her...
Murder of Leonie Darnley (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Report on the murder of seven-year-old Leonie Darnley in Battersea, London. Detective Chief Superintendent John Coo discusses the investigation. Local mothers comment. Female reporter not identified.