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Steve Jones show (1988)
- Genre
- Interview; Music
Steve Jones is joined by Max Bygraves, who discusses his benefit show to raise money for trees blown down in the hurricane last year, with other comedians and entertainers including Frankie Vaughan, Fenella...
Clive Jenkins on his retirement (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
One of Britain’s leading trade union figures is retiring to settle for a more peaceful life in Tasmania where he will work on ecology and write his autobiography. Clive Jenkins, joint General Secretary...
Charlie Kray on Me and My Brothers (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Charlie Kray, brother of the infamous Ronnie and Reggie Kray, discusses his sentence for his part in the murder of Jack McVitie, which he says didn’t commit. Kray is releasing a book, Me and My Brothers,...
Midwife wins job back in tribunal (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Midwife Chris Warren has won her test tribunal against Croydon health authority for dimissal 4 months ago for failing to call an assistant to a home birth. Chris says she’s delighted to be able to return...
Sir James Black is joint winner of Nobel Prize for medicine (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
James Black, Professor of Analytical Pharmacology at Kings College Medical School, London reacts to news he has jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine with US colleagues George Hitchings and Gertrude...
Inquest of robbers killed by police (1988)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Margaret Shiels reports from Lambeth Magistrates Court on the inquests into deaths of Michael Flynn and Nicholas Payne killed by police at an attempted robbery at Plumstead Abbattoir last July. Martin Payne,...
British Aerospace asset-stripping (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Michael Meacher, Labour Party employment spokesman, who is launching a campaign against the closure of weapons factories by British Aerospace with massive loss of jobs. He says the company...
Francis Graham Smith on new telescope funding (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Astronomer Royal, Sir Francis Graham Smith gives details of a new multi-million pund radio telescope which will be built by Manchester University following a grant. He describes the kind of things it may...
IRA and Sinn Fein banned from British airwaves (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Sinn fein President Gerry Adams reacts to new legislation which will ban Sinn Fein and the IRA from broadcasting on British airwaves from this afternoon. He says the move is undemocratic and comments on the...
Trade unionist sacked from GCHQ (1988)
- Genre
- Interview
Brian Johnson is one of four trade unionists sacked from GCHQ for refusing to leave the union. Johnson, who’s worked there since the fifties, says he was appalled when the first he knew about his...