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  • Miles Copeland, Jr. on life and times (1989)

    Genre
    Interview; Music

    Gill Pyrah interviews Miles Copeland, Jr. (Miles Axe Copeland, father of Miles Copeland III), musician, businessman, and CIA officer about his time as a musician playing with jazz trumpeter Erskine Hawkins,...

  • Gigha island bought by businessman Malcolm Potier (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Report on businessman Malcolm Potier buying the Hebridean island of Gigha, together with castle and baronetcy. The new laird speaks of his love for the island as a place to live, and confirms the purchase is...

  • Victor Cracknell freed after kidnapping (1989)

    Genre
    News report; Press conference

    Val Handley reports on the release of the kidnapped businessman Victor Cracknell on 18/08/89. Thirty-two year old Cracknell was under threat of death if his family didn’t pay a million pound ransom. But...

  • Richard Branson balloon attempt fails (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Julie Sedgwick interviews businessman Richard Branson about the failure of his record-breaking attempt to fly a balloon across the Pacific. He and co-pilot Per Lindstrand were just 45 minutes from take-off...

  • Lord Young on his political life (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Politician and businessman Lord Young of Graffham (David Young) talks to Michael Parkinson about his autobiography- The Enterprise Years: a Businessman in the Cabinet and criticism of it by Norman Tebbit who...

  • Mission to free Britons held in Iraq (1990)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with 2 relatives of Britons held hostage in Iraq as human shields talk about their mission to Iraq to attempt to get them released and the circumstances of their situations: Pat Hall, mother of...

  • My Millennium (1996)

    Genre
    Interview

    My Millennium asks leading men and women to outline their vision of the world beyond 2000: David Banks talks to television supremo Greg Dyke. Covers: effect of social class; Labour Party; having to make...