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12 results found for '"Scientists"' in Keywords.
Magnus Pyke reacts to his OBE (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Dr Magnus Alfred Pyke is a British scientist and media figure, who, although apparently quite eccentric and playing up to the mad scientist stereotype, has succeeded in explaining science to a lay audience....
Alan Richards on Albert Einstein (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; Tribute
Photographer Alan Richards, author of Einstein As I Knew Him (published on the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s birth), describes meeting the scientist Albert Einstein in 1944 and taking his picture during...
Sally Ride is first woman to orbit Earth (1983)
- Genre
- Music; News report; Press conference
Report on Sally Ride, the first American woman to orbit the Earth in a shuttle. Ride comments in a press conference. Also includes excerpts from a song recorded to honour her achievement (sound slightly...
Magnus Pyke recovers after attack (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
John Cookson interviews television personality and scientist, Dr Magnus Pyke, who’s recovering after being brutally beaten and robbed at his Hammersmith home.
Andrei Sakharov backs glasnost (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
John Alcock reports from Moscow on the decision of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov to back leader, Mikhail Gorbachevâs campaign of reconstruction or glasnost; includes excerpts from press interview...
Marconi scientists’ deaths lead to conspiracy theories (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The electrocution of 60 year-old Marconi employee, John Ferry has again sparked conspiracy theories as he is the sixth employee working on a top secret project who has died in suspicious circumstances....
Arthur Scargill says Thatcher gagged scientists (1989)
- Genre
- Speech
NUM President Arthur Scargill speech at his two day future for coal conference in Sheffield in which he accuses the Government of gagging a number of leading scientists to prevent them from...
Peter Scott dies (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Obituary
Peter Russell reports on the death of naturalist Sir Peter Scott, who has died after a third heart attack at the age of seventy-nine. Sir Peter who founded the Wildfowl Trust and the World Wildlife Fund was...
British [Science?] Association conference (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
John Allen, IRN science correspondent, interviews the chairman of the British [Science?] Association, Malcolm Frazer(?), in Sheffield, prior to the Association’s annual meeting. The conference is the...
Role of Government information officers (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Elizabeth Jenkins, Assistant Secretary of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants, talks to Kevin Murphy about Government information officers’ jobs and how they have been asked to sell policies...