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26 results found for '"GWR"' in Contributors.
Life with Elvis (1987)
- Genre
- Interview; Documentary; Music; Special
Life with Elvis. Presented by Nigel Sharp. Documentary, originally broadcast on GWR, about Elvis Presley, through interview with Presley’s step-brother, David Stanley, who talks about the singer’s life,...
Sarah Jane Newbury certified a virgin (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Mark Phillips interviews 30 year-old legal secretary Sarah Jane Newbury from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, who explains why she underwent a medical procedure to certify that she is a virgin. She says she is waiting...
Arson attack on a clothes shop in Bristol (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Chief Inspector Brian Saunders on an arson attack on a clothes shop in Bristol. He says the police are investigating as to whether animal rights activists or other groups are responsible for...
Sara Keays on daughter’s condition (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Henrietta(?) Peak(?) interviews Sara Keays, former mistress of Conservative minister, Cecil Parkinson, about the condition of her epileptic daughter Flora Keays and press stories that she is preventing...
Thames Valley Eggs sues Currie (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with John Coles, Thames Valley Eggs, following the resignation of junior health minister Edwina Currie over her remarks about salmonella-infected eggs. He claims Currie cannot atone for the damage...
Military funeral of IRA victim Jason Burfitt (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
A military funeral for Jason Burfitt of the 1st Battalion Light Infantry â a victim of the IRA - was held today at St John’s Roman Catholic Church. Monsigneur William Mitchell, who gave the address,...
Bombing of Bristol University by anti-vivsectionists (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Press conference
The bombing of Bristol University by anti-vivisectionists is condemned by Education Secretary Kenneth Baker; Foreign Office Minister and Bristol West MP William Waldegrave and Kate Doddington, spokesperson...
Funeral of three young sisters killed in a house fire (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Kate Stephens(?) reports on the funeral of three young sisters, the daughters of a vicar, who died in a house fire in Wiltshire. The Reverend Bill Taylor, team vicar for Tisbury, talks about the girls and...
Three sisters die in vicarage blaze (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Sally Johnson reports on an inquest that has heard how three sisters who died in a burning vicarage at Chilmark, Wiltshire, could have been saved by smoke detectors. Verdicts of accidental death were...
Summer Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge - police operation (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Julie Osborne reports on police operations in readiness for the Summer Solstice celebrations at Stonehenge in South Wiltshire. Many so-called hippies have set up camp on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border, but...