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27 results found for '"Rural areas"' in Keywords.

  • Norman Fowler on abolition of road tax (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Shadow Transport Secretary and Conservative MP, Norman Fowler on Government plans to abolish road tax. Fowler says abolition will increase the price of petrol and hit rural communities harder than urban...

  • Vox pop on abolishing road tax (1978)

    Genre
    Vox pop

    Public reaction to government plans to abolish road tax. Male reporter not identified.

  • Petrol supply shortages in rural areas (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Chairman of the National Association of Local Authorities, John Clark, on the detrimental effect on rural areas of the current shortfall in petrol supply. Calling on the Government to exert pressure on...

  • Day’s Parliamentary proceedings (1979)

    Genre
    News report; Parliamentary debate; Speech

    Report on Prime Minister’s Question Time and other debates today at the House of Commons. Issues include energy shortages, MPs having second jobs, and Westminster palace strikes, finance. With speeches...

  • Rural discrimination over petrol supply (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with a farmer arguing that oil companies are discriminating against country people by controlling the supply of petrol to rural garages. Male speaker and interviewer not identified.

  • Road building programme (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview about the UK Government’s announcement of a major road building programme aimed at redirecting traffic away from towns and villages. Male speaker and interviewer not identified. Sound is in mono.

  • Network (1980)

    Genre
    Documentary; Interview

    In this first half of A Passage to England, Tony Hawkins investigates immigration from the Indian subcontinent to the UK - where people come from and why, what did they expect from the UK, their feelings now...

  • Decision makers (1982)

    Genre
    Interview; Documentary

    Decision Makers: Inner City Jobs, presented by Tom Maddocks on migration to rural areas of individuals and businesses from the inner cities, and knock-on effects of increased unemployment and urban...

  • Heavy voting in El Salvador elections (1982)

    Genre
    News report

    Report on heavy voting in the first democratic elections in El Salvador, despite attempted disruption by left-wing guerrillas and on US and British observers and speculates on outcome. Male American reporter...

  • Network (1984)

    Genre
    Feature

    In Hardy’s Wessex, Sean Street interviews the author of Hardy’s Wessex, and other books, Desmond Hawkins, about the landscapes which inspired the novels and poetry of Thomas Hardy (Dorset (including...