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11 results found for '"Lead"' in Keywords.
Reduced lead content in petrol (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Conservative MP Archie Hamilton talks about his bill to reduce lead content in petrol from .45g per litre to .15g per litre, and the price increase because of this. Oil companies have given it their support.
Our kind of town (1979)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview
Keith Howell presents Our Kind of Town. This week’s edition looks at three books about London and Howell interviews the authors on their stories. The books are Docklandscape, by Hilary Peters, on her city...
Swan lead deaths (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with environment minister Denis Howell on the setting up of a working party to investigate the death of swans from lead poisoning on Britain’s waterways. Male interviewer not identified. Sound...
City week (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
City Week. The week’s news as seen by LBC’s Financial Unit. Presented by Tom Maddocks. Report on inflation and interest rates. Chairman of Abbey National Building Society, Sir Campbell Adamson, has said...
City week (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Consumer advice
City Week, presented by Tom Maddocks; studio direction by David Balharry(?). Part 2 of 2. Valerie Bafell(?) interviews General Secretary of the National Council of Civil Liberties, Patricia Hewitt on income...
It’s a dangerous world (1981)
- Genre
- Feature; Special
LBC Special: It’s a Dangerous World, presented by Lawrence Spicer. On hazards in modern life; health; pollution; lead poisoning; noise pollution. With music from Eddie Rabbitt, Tenpole Tudor, Jerry Lee...
European commissioner on role and pollution (1985)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with unidentified British European Commissioner in charge of transport, environment, consumer protection and nuclear safety (Stanley Clinton Davis?) about the role and differing views among member...
Britain to be prosecuted over drinking water standards (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Environment Secretary Chris Patten speaks to Peter Spencer about the EC deciding to go ahead with its prosecution of Britain over nitrate and lead in drinking water despite his intense lobbying. He says it...
John Gummer on contaminated beef (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Agriculture Secretary, John Gummer, following concern over milk that has been contaminated with lead due to animals eating imported animal feed. Over five hundred farms are now under...
Survey into drinking water quality (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Following a survey into drinking water, an unidentified spokesman calling for an independent national agency to control quality, and for action to strip out all the remaining lead service pipes and plumbing....