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54 results found for '"Museums"' in Keywords.
Victoria and Albert Museum (1975)
- Genre
- Interview
The Victoria and Albert Museum has a new Victorian gift shop, a large affair with a craft area. It will open next February; here an unidentified male spokesman talks about the opening, and the range of...
US Eagles recollect WW2 (1976)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview
Christopher Hourmouzious tours the RAF Museum in Hendon, London with veteran pilots of the US Eagles squadrons that joined the RAF before the USA officially joined the war. They see Second World War aircraft...
Dr John Tanner on the Battle of Britain Museum (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Dr John Tanner on the opening of the Battle of Britain Museum. He talks about how unique the museum is, the full range of aircraft that took part, and his favourite aircraft. Male interviewer not identified.
Sir Hugh Casson on Museum of the Year (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with architect and broadcaster Sir Hugh Casson on choosing the museum of the year. He speaks about the decision to split the prize, and the reasons why the winners won.
Our kind of town (1979)
- Genre
- Documentary; Special; Interview; Speech; Obituary
Our Kind of Town, weekly programme presented by Keith Howell. This edition visits the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill, south London, and looks at its founding (by tea trader, Frederick Horniman) and history,...
Butterfly bomb discovered at Basingstoke museum (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male museum manager(?) describes the discovery of a butterfly bomb at Basingstoke Museum, and its removal and destruction by a bomb disposal team. Male interviewer not identified.
Eliza Hermitage, aged 101, goes down a coalmine (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Interview with Eliza Hermitage, who is 101 years old and has just been down the world’s first underground mining museum, Chatterley Whitfield Mining Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. Museum director Jonathan...
Government cuts in spending (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Tim Gospill, chief officer of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities, about proposed Government cuts in local authority spending with the possible effect on arts and cultural services...
Our kind of town (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; Special
Our Kind of Town. Keith Howell hosts this episode (Old Soldiers Never Die?) in which 84 year-old World War I survivor Charlie Garrard(?) shares his recollections of the War. Rose Coombs, Special Collections...
Our kind of town (1980)
- Genre
- Documentary; Interview
Our Kind of Town, presented by Keith Howell. Howell speaks to Jean Ware and her husband Hugh Hunt, authors of a new book - The Several Lives of a Victorian Vet - based on the life of Welsh vet Griffith...