Results
28,816 results found for all records.
Arthur Brittenden on new-look Sunday Times (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Arthur Brittenden, spokesman for News International, describes the new-look Sunday Times, with its additional, 24-page fourth section printed at the new Tower Hamlets plant. He expresses his hope that...
Printers’ dispute talks break down (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; Press conference
In 3 parts. Rupert Murdoch, owner of News International, makes a statement after talks with print unions break down. Brenda Dean of SOGAT 82 thinks the company didn’t really want a settlement, and says...
Sun printers feel fight inevitable (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. John Bailey, spokesman for the Sun newspaper printers) says workers will take Murdoch’s newspaper titles off the street if necessary. They feel they have been shabbily...
TUC urges newspaper boycott (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Press conference
Mark Mardell reports on electricians’ union leader Eric Hammond’s visit to the Trades Union Congress, during which he was jeered and booed by striking printworkers. Tony Dubbins of the NGA says throwing...
Drivers cross picket lines at Wapping (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Special; Speech
Lindsay Taylor reports on lorry drivers’ defiance of transport union TGWU leader Ron Todd as they cross the picket lines at News International’s Wapping plant. Includes news conference statement by Ron...
Refusenik journalists at Gray’s Inn Road (1986)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Unidentified female reporter visits the former Sunday Times headquarters in Gray’s Inn Road, Holborn, and talks to the journalists - dubbed the refuseniks - who have yet to decide whether to relocate or...
David Hunt on British coal industry (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Coal Minister, David Hunt says the British coal industry has a very bright future. He speaks of the miners’ determination to put the strike behind them. Male interviewer not identified.
Electricians sell out in Wapping dispute? (1986)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Mark Mardell reports how, in the Wapping News International dispute, the electricians have sold the printers down the river. The General Council of the TUC met to discuss this, but their instructions to the...
Brenda Dean on sequestration of SOGAT 82 funds (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Brenda Dean of printers’ union SOGAT 82 reacts to the sequestration of union funds during the News International printers strike at Wapping as they refused to stop blacking papers. She says the union is...
Brenda Dean on SOGAT 82 funds sequestration (1986)
- Genre
- Interview
Brenda Dean, General Secretary of SOGAT 82, on the union’s funds having been sequestrated due to its refusal to stop blacking papers at Wapping during the News International printers’ strike. On the...