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11 results found for '"World in Action"' in Keywords.
Harold Wilson on first year in government (1975)
- Genre
- Interview
Prime Minister Harold Wilson, interviewed on the current affairs television programme World in Action, speaking on his first year in government; the threat of economic disaster; inflation; his election...
Margaret Thatcher on immigration (1978)
- Genre
- Interview
Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher discusses the topic of immigration, on Granada Television’ s World in Action programme. She claims that if immigration carries on at the present level, the...
IBA bans World in Action programme on Hong Kong (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Bruce Page, editor of New Statesman magazine, on the banning by the IBA of a Granada World in Action programme about corruption and poor security in Hong Kong, on the grounds that it breached...
Operation Countryman corruption inquiry (1982)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on the Operation Countryman police inquiry into corruption in the Metropolitan Police and the Flying Squad, and the ITV World in Action programme on obstruction of the inquiry. Speaking are: Chief...
Dangers of asbestos (1982)
- Genre
- Interview
Report on the dangers of asbestos following a report by the ITV documentary, World in Action. With comment from:Jack Ashley MP; Turner & Newall asbestos company management spokesman Wilfrid Newton;...
Police corruption documentary - Reaction (1982)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on Scotland Yard’s reaction to the World in Action documentary which accused the Metropolitan Police Force of obstructing Operation Countryman, an inquiry into corruption in the Force. Unidentified...
Birmingham Six case (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on new evidence suggesting that the Birmingham Six (Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph (Paddy Joe) Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William (Billy) Power and John Walker), sentenced to life for the...
Birmingham Six case (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on new evidence that the Birmingham Six, sentenced to life for the 1974 IRA Birmingham pub bombings, may have been wrongfully convicted, and on local Conservative MP John Farr’s call for a retrial....
Herald of Free Enterprise disaster (1987)
- Genre
- Documentary
Recording of Granada Television World in Action programme on aftermath of Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster, after she sank in the North Sea on 06/03/87; with evidence that the sinking of a ferry was...
Trial of detectives who set up robbery (1987)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on Old Bailey trial of Detective Sergeant Kenneth Day and Detective Constable Richard Chapman of Scotland Yard’s Flying Squad, who set up an armed raid on an Ealing, West London, dairy so that they...