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Rosalind Runcie on Royal Marsden campaign (1982)
- Genre
- Interview
Rosalind Runcie, wife of Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Robert Runcie, on the campaign to prevent the threatened closure of the Royal Marsden Hospital’s breast diagnostic unit. She talks about her own...
June Kenton on Royal Marsden campaign (1982)
- Genre
- Interview
June Kenton, founder of Rigby & Peller clothes store, on the campaign to prevent the threatened closure of the Royal Marsden Hospital’s breast diagnostic unit. Female interviewer not identified. Sound in...
Royal Marsden closure - Reaction (1982)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on reaction to the proposed closure of the Royal Marsden Hospital breast screening clinic in London. Speakers include: Dr Jane Davey (not June, as given in the clip); local women and users of the...
The story of Kathleen Ferrier (1987)
- Genre
- Feature
The life and career of opera singer Kathleen Ferrier, with several excerpts of opera sung by her including What is Life, Oratorio Elijah and Mahler’s Song of the Earth. Interviews with schoolfriends and...
Diana Moran on her fight against breast cancer (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Peter Henley talks to fitness instructor and journalist Diana Moran (aka The Green Goddess) about her book - A More Difficult Exercise - that deals with her battle with breast cancer, and why she concealed...
30th anniversary of the contraceptive pill (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on the 30th anniversary of the introduction of the contraceptive pill. Dilys Cossey of the Family Planning Association describes the features of the pill. Dr Clifford Kay, Director of the Royal...
Bottomley on breast awareness for cancer (1991)
- Genre
- Interview
Paul Rowley interviews health minister, Virginia Bottomley, about public calls for women to be breast aware for signs of breast cancer in an attempt to cut the UK’s annual toll of fifteen thousand deaths...
Celebrities trade places for charity (1992)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
A breast cancer charity launches an event in central London where celebrities do different jobs for one day to raise money, trading places with those normally doing the job to raise money fro a specialist...
Celebrities trade places to raise money (1992)
- Genre
- News report; Special; Interview; Vox pop
LBC reporter Mark Phillips becomes a bus conductor for the day as part of the Trading Places fundraising appeal. Money is being raised for the first specialist breast cancer clinic at the Royal Marsden...
Breast screening programme useless? (1995)
- Genre
- Interview
Professor Michael Baum, the research director at the Institute of Cancer Research has said breast cancer screenings are too expensive and caused needless worry for women and says they should be scrapped....