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18 results found for '"John Terrett"' in Contributors.

  • Network - Field and Hedgerow (1984)

    Genre
    Feature

    Field and Hedgerow: Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies, adapted for radio and read by Sean Street. Richard Jefferies was a Victorian journalist, and author of three books. His last essays were...

  • 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...

  • Bush and Gorbachev sign historic nuclear treaty (1991)

    Genre
    News bulletin; Speech

    News bulletin read by John Terrett announcing the signing of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) 1 by US President George H. W. Bush, and Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, intended to scale down the...

  • Joy Gardner’s death (1993)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    John Terrett reports on Myrna Simpson’s claims at a public meeting in Hornsey that her daughter was bound and gagged by police and virtually dead before arriving at hospital. Jamaican Joy Gardner died...

  • London local elections results (1994)

    Genre
    Election coverage; Interview; News report; Speech

    Max Cotton reports on the results of local elections in London after a disastrous Conservative Party performance. With comment from Labour’s Hilary Benn (son of Tony) who won in Ealing; Tory MP for Enfield...

  • Tube drivers dispute (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    Representing the employers’ side in the tube drivers dispute negotiations over wages and working hours is Ann Burfutt, Director of Human Resources for London Underground. She speaks to John Terrett who...

  • Richard Jeffries on Saro-Wiwa execution (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    John Terrett interviews Dr Richard Jeffries of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London about his views on the execution of political activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, the recent political history of...

  • Gay people in the armed forces (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    John Terrett interviews Robert Ely, the founder of Rank Outsiders, a support group for gay people in the armed forces, about why the Ministry of Defence policy on gay people must change. Follows a High Court...

  • Joy Gardner case (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    John Terrett interviews Mike Bennett, Chairman of the Police Federation, about the case of Joy Gardner, an illegal immigrant who died during a police raid on her home in London on 28/07/93. Two police...

  • Ron Gandy on being a human shield (1995)

    Genre
    Interview

    John Terrett interviews Ron Gandy on being held hostage as a human shield by the Iraqi authorities during the Gulf War; comparison with current UN peacekeeper hostages in Bosnia; pessimistic for their release.

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