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11 results found for '"John Boyd"' in Contributors.
Sir Terence Beckett attacks unions (1978)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference; Interview
Sir Terence Beckett, Managing Director of the Ford motor company, criticises the unions’ refusal to discuss the efficiency of the workforce. Beckett claims that Ford is doing all it can to support the...
SAS raid on Belfast house - Residents’ reaction (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Eamonn Mallie interviews Moyra Berkery and John Boyd on their ordeal after being held at gunpoint by an SAS unit at their house in the Belfast Twinbrook housing estate (19/10/80). The two interviewees talk...
Labour conference - AUEW on candidates vote (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Vivian White interviews Sir John Boyd, General Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (AUEW), at the start of the 1980 Labour Party conference in Blackpool prior to debates on the...
Labour conference - anger over block vote (1980)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report from the 1980 Labour Party conference in Blackpool after trade unions used their block votes to affect votes on the party constitution including proposed changes to how leaders are selected. Includes...
Conservative conference - John Boyd-Carpenter on proposals to abolish House of Lords (1980)
- Genre
- Speech
Lord Boyd-Carpenter, speaking at the Conservative Party conference in Brighton, criticises Labour MP, Tony Benn’s proposal to abolish the House of Lords, saying that it would lead to tyranny.
Labour conference-nuclear disarmament debate (1981)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
Report on the Labour Party conference in Brighton debate on nuclear disarmament policy and staying in NATO. Speaking are delegate Alistair Darling; Foreign Office minister Douglas Hurd; left wing Labour MP...
John Boyd on Labour Wembley conference (1981)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Sir John Boyd, leader of the union of engineering workers, about the special one day conference in Wembley to decide which section of the Labour Party should get the majority vote in choosing...
Body of Imran Vohra found (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Report on the discovery of the body of missing 9-year-old Asian boy Imran Vohra in Avenham Park, Preston, Lancashire. Speaking are Detective Superintendent John Boyd and local residents with their reactions....
Murder of Imran Vohra (1985)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Speech
Report on the sexual assault and murder of 9-year-old Asian boy Imran Vohra found dead in Avenham Park in Preston, Lancashire. Speaking are father Ismail(?) Vohra, Detective Superintendent John Boyd and...
Lockerbie bombing - Likely explanation (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Michael O’Neill reports on the likely explanation for the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland (21/12/88) thought to be either a terrorist attack or structural failure. It now thought...