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42 results found for '"British Gas"' in Keywords.
British Gas profit (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Sir Denis Rooke, company chairman, on £3 million profit at British Gas. Male interviewer not identified.
British Gas prices remain the same (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Sir Denis Rooke, British Gas Chairman, defends the announcement that there will not be a reduction in gas bills despite British Gas’s 180 millon pound profit, citing interest rates and inflation as the...
British Gas privatisation (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Sir Denis Rooke, Chairman of British Gas, on the proposals of the newly elected Conservative Government to privatise the company. Male interviewer not identified. Sound is in mono.
British Gas prices rise (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a representative for the National Consumer Council (possibly Chairwoman Naomi McIntosh?) on a rise in British Gas prices despite the announcement of profits. Female interviewer not identified.
Proposals to close Gas Corp (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a picket outside a Gas Corporation showroom about the proposal by the government to sell off the showroom business, following a Monopolies Commission report stating it has a monopoly. Male...
Gas Corp strike (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with NALGO union Gas Officer Dave Stirzaker on the proposed sale of British Gas Corporation showrooms by the government after a Monopolies Commission report, during a 24 hour strike by gas Corp...
Energy industry attacks (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on a speech on the coal and North Sea oil industries by union leader Frank Chapple. Includes excerpts of the speech, in which Chapple attacks the Government’s plans to sell off British Gas showrooms...
Decision makers (1985)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview; Parliamentary debate; Speech
Decision Makers. Programme on the privatisation of British Gas. Part 1, presented by Richard Dallyn. Includes speech by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons, and retort by Labour leader...
Decision makers (1985)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview
Decision Makers. Programme on the privatisation of British Gas. Part 2, presented by Richard Dallyn. Includes interview with backbench MP Richard Shepherd, who defends the Conservative policy; former prime...
Peter Walker on British Gas (1986)
- Genre
- Speech
Energy Secretary, Peter Walker on the privatisation of British Gas.