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Miners strike - Police behaviour defended (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Nottinghamshire Chief Constable Charles McLachlan defends police behaviour during the miners’ strike. Male interviewer not identified.
Cot death causes (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on a Thames Television Daytime show (04/12/84) which saw pathologist Dr Donald Wayte face parents of cot death babies with his unfounded claims many are caused by the parents. Includes excerpt of show...
Norfolk council house siege (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with a police spokesman on police attempts to negotiate with armed man Mike Hood, who is holding Sandra Yeoman hostage in a council flat in Carbrooke, Norfolk, and the circumstances of the siege....
Council fire safety obligations (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on a fire (20/11/84) in a bed and breakfast at Gloucester Place, Camden, London, that resulted in the deaths of previously homeless Bengali woman Mrs Abdul Karim and her two children, and on...
Roger de Grey elected president of the Royal Academy of Arts (1984)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Report on artist Roger de Grey being voted President of the Royal Academy of Arts. Includes announcement by Royal Academy Secretary Piers Rodgers; interviews with Royal Academy’s Griselda Hamilton-Baillie...
Prisoners put on night for pensioners (1984)
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- Interview
Interview with an unidentified male speaker about a (Christmas?) concert performed by life sentence prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs? to a group of pensioners. The event includes performances, a meal and cash...
Manchester rail crash (1984)
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- Interview
Report back on the train crash involving the Transpennine Express from Liverpool Lime Street to Scarborough which ran into a petrol tanker train on its way to Leeds and removal of the injured. Eyewitness...
Victims of the Manchester rail crash (1984)
- Genre
- Interview
Interviews with a hospital spokesman (not identified) and Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police James Anderton, on the victims of the rail accident involving a passenger train which collided with an...
M25 accident pile-up (1984)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report from the scene on the pile-up on the M25 motorway on Surrey which has killed several people. Superintendent Nick Brent(?) says the probable cause of the accident is drivers going too fast. Surrey...
Brian Cobby on becoming the speaking clock (1984)
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- Interview
Interview with Brian Cobby on becoming the new voice of British Telecom’s talking clock. Female interviewer not identified.