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Tony Fahey on world water speed record attempt (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Tony Fahey is interviewed about the boat in which he hopes to break the official world water speed record. Reference is made to the late Donald Campbell, who died trying to break his own record, and to...
Bernard Betts on Sierra Leone scorpion expedition (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Bernard Betts talks about his planned expedition to search for scorpions in Sierra Leone, having gone on a reconnaissance mission searching the British Museum collection. His team plans to use UV lamps to...
Sussex University students on pilgrimage to Kashmir (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Sussex University anthropology students are interviewed about their plan to study pilgrimages by doing a real pilgrimage - in this case, the annual journey to the Amarnath cave in Kashmir to see the...
Glacier Retreat expedition (1977)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with an unidentified member of Chelsea College about a planned hydro-biological expedition to look at life in areas left by retreating glaciers in Glacier Bay, Alaska. The speaker describes the...
Training for round the world expedition (1977)
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- Interview
Unidentified male speaker (poss. Sir Ranulph Fiennes) on Arctic and Greenland expeditions his team has completed as part of their training for their attempt to go around the world via both poles. He...
Sir John Methven on the Bullock Report (1977)
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- Interview
Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Sir John Methven discusses the Bullock Report (on worker participation) with reporter Vivian White. Methven is keen to see greater profits to...
Mining leaders on age of retirement (1977)
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- News report; Interview
Coal Board Chairman, Sir Derek Ezra on the debate over early retirement for miners. Ezra says that workers under ground will be included but that the Coal Board cannot include above ground workers in the...
Jack Jones on economic plans for 1977 (1977)
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- Interview
(Former?) General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, Jack Jones discusses plans to increase exports and calls for people to buy British goods and invest in British industry. Jones also...
CBI against Bullock Report (1977)
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- Interview
Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry, Sir John Methven claims that the CBI is behind further involvement of the workforce but will fight any insistence that workers be present on the...
Tom Pendry on leaving the Whips Office (1977)
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- Interview
Labour MP, Tom Pendry discusses why he has left the Whips Office after five years, saying that he wants to concentrate on constituency issues. Pendry describes how he is looking forward to returning to the...